[fishtank]

.... They asked this:

Why does the Western Hemisphere have tens of millions of the descendants of African slaves,

but in the Middle East there are almost no descendants of African slaves that were taken captive by Muslims?

[caseinpoint]

Have not listened to your linked video but the book “Swords and Scimitars” indicates that Muslims much preferred their slaves to be white Christians.

[PGalt]

BUMP!

[fishtank]

The Unknown History of Islam 08 - The Islamic View of Black People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9QWwKasHs&t=19s

[fieldmarshaldj]

*(offered without review) ping*

[cdcdawg]

“Why does the Western Hemisphere have tens of millions of the descendants of African slaves, but in the Middle East there are almost no descendants of African slaves that were taken captive by Muslims?”

Because they were significantly less altruistic about the institution. Also, in the Western Hemisphere, it was really far away from the supply, so they needed to breed slaves here, which was cheaper than importing more. In the Middle East, much closer to the supply, they could just geld the ones they had, and buy more. Harsh truth.

[Rurudyne]

Castration of all African male slaves is one answer I’ve heard.

Moreover, Islam apparently makes quite a big deal out of the whiteness of the false prophet, and teaches the inferiority of black persons so it hardly seems that Arabs in that religion would be eager for dark skinned lovers, does it?

For a mullato child who was freeborn who starts in Africa for them to stay in Africa where their relatively lighter skin might confer them some benefit may also make sense compared to migrating east and being disadvantaged by their relatively darker skin in that context. Conversely, there might have been benefits to be had to move West for such a child born in the near east.

Any number of such things working out over time could explain the demographics.

[El Cid]

Peter Hammond's book: 'Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam' had a lot of information on this topic.
The gist of it was that many more black Africans were taken off to be slaves - but probably around 90% died during the transportation, and the males were castrated. The women slaves had their offspring murdered (by their 'pro-choice' slave owners).

The link below: is from one of his talks on this subject: .

Slavery, What You've never been told

[Amberdawn]

From what I read, muslims used female blacks for domestic and sex slavery and castrated the black males.

[PIF]

Slave markets were the big business of the time. Many of the slave markets were run and owned by Christians and Jews.