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To: Brian_Baldwin
Also, I guess slavery didn't exist for anyone else other than Africans throughout history.
7 posted on 07/08/2003 9:21:12 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides
No overall group of peoples were subject to slavery to the extent that sub-saharan africans were...none even close.

That being said, the Atlantic slave trade of about 10 million versus that Muslim slave trade of 15 million consisted more of purchase and trade in lives rather than direct capture and enslavement which the Muslims did as readily as the africans.

You can't visit Hiroshima and not mention the bomb. You can't go to africa and not mention slavery.

My source for the above figures and accessments is from my memeory of a section of Thomas Sowell's book Conquests and Cultures.

13 posted on 07/08/2003 9:36:05 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: Paul Atreides
Also, I guess slavery didn't exist for anyone else other than Africans throughout history

Yes, and every single one of these slaves shipped to the United States- when it truth less than 5% were imported into the US, the rest (95.3%)went to South American, Cen. American, Cuba and the west indies.

Brazil alone swallowed something like 40% of all African slaves over the centuries, yet there is never any outcry about that b/c Brazil is a poor country. Which proves once again, "Follow the money".

15 posted on 07/08/2003 9:45:10 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.")
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