In the video, the two hosts say that the Western Hemisphere slave trade was mostly of males from Western Africa - to work the plantations.
In the Middle East, they said most of the slaves were females from East Africa - to work the harems.
“In the Middle East, they said most of the slaves were females from East Africa - to work the harems.”
Pre-pubescent boys as sex slaves for men, was always a component of the muslim sex trade as well. They also had several functions where male slaves were used for hard labor, such as mining and galley slaves.
Such laborers were often restrained (chained or locked in) in ways that prevented them from ever having sex to reproduce. Male African slaves were often routinely castrated, if they were going to perform services where they would mingle with women more freely, like in households, businesses or caravans.
Finally, slaves, and their children, could be killed. In the case of Black Africans, Arab racial preferences led to an exceptionally high death rate among Black slaves and their children.
And most of those slaves were sent to the Caribbean or S. America. The USA prohibited the importation of new slaves in 1808. With no new slaves coming in, slaves in the USA were treated much better than other places - where they would just work them to death and get new ones. Of course slave children became slaves in the USA - but another reason to keep the adults (and the kids) healthy.
Obviously any kind of slavery is terrible - but those in the USA had it far better than anywhere else.
Thanks for the information. The whites were forced to join the harems and many Arabic lines became progressively whiter in skin color compared to the early Arabs.