The Origins of the Slave Trade

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[Abcdefg]

Slavery is mentioned in the Bible WAY before 800 AD.

[1066AD]

To this day, both Arabs and Europeans maintain that the slave trade was a USA aberration, not their own invention
To this day slavery continues, from sub-saharan africa eastwards to the Red Sea, conducted by arabs as usual.

[billorites]

Bush knew!

[liberallarry]

it's in the U.S. that large sectors of the population would start condemning slavery, contrary to the indifference that Muslims and Europeans always showed for it

England outlawed slavery in 1800.

[Cicero]

Yes, this is largely true. The one thing it omits is that the Muslims also raided the coasts of Europe for slaves, so that many of the slaves in Muslim countries were white. Probably there were more black slaves, because as the article points out they could be cheaply bought instead of fought for. But Muslim pirates and slavers were rampant in the Mediterranean for hundreds of years, and it was actually the American navy that put an end to the worst of it.

It's highly ironic that politically correct liars in academia have managed to convinced the blacks that Christianity is a "slave religion" and therefore that they should become black Muslims. Islam is the real religion of slavers.

[fat city]

I remember reading that Swahili was not an indigenous African language but a contrivance of Arabs as a universal language to communicate with the disparate tribes they were commiting to slavery. Sounds good anyway.

[Cicero]

Very true. But England was not considered to be a part of "Europe" until pretty recently.

The Pope and the Church also condemned slavery at an early date. But that didn't persuade most of the European countries, who continued to profit from slave plantations abroad--Portugal, Belgium, France, Germany, and so forth.

The fact that they were behaving hypocritically and knew what they were doing was wrong is well indicated by the fact that the slaves were kept abroad. It was known that they were there, but "out of sight, out of mind."

[litehaus]

Bump 4 educating..............

[Doctor Stochastic]

Most of the South wasn't Islamic during the slave era. In fact, there weren't very many Islamic slave-based plantations during and before the Civil War. Other countries have differing experiences (and outside of Europe and the Americas, not much opposition to slavery.)

[motzman]

For most people in the world, if you trace your ancestory far enough back, you will come upon a relative who was a slave or in servitude at some point.

Which makes the reperations issue a moot point.

[paltz]

For most people in the world, if you trace your ancestory far enough back, you will come upon a relative who was a slave or in servitude at some point.

Which is why white slavery (and I don't necessarily mean women sold off into prostitution) was a reality on our land. WHITE SLAVERY IN AMERICA

[cyborg]

The origins of slavery is in the fall of Lucifer. Ever since then human beings have been pressing peope into servitude and misery. Apprently it was barbaric enough for God to set guidelines on how to treat slaves.

[cyborg]

My sister had to literally have twelve copies of her passport when she moved to Japan. White slavery is encompassing a whole host of things these days, including the blackmarket white baby trade.

[cyborg]

You will see his name pop up in black history month, but Benjamin Banneker's mother was a white slave. That's how she met his father, a black african slave. They were together on the same slave ship. You won't read that in the PC manuals.

[IronJack]

Bookmark for ammo against the reparations nutcases.

[kitkat]

BUMP

[what's up]

Yes, and I believe that the reason that it was not widely condemned is that it was used as an effective way to treat subjugated nations...to keep them from rising again.

[arthurus]

The author specifically refers to the modern type of slave trade. Previously slaves were not bought and sold in batches except after wars when a good percentage of the losers became slaves of the winners. Without the possiblity of profit from selling or using those slaves they would not have been captured. They would have been killed.

Many more people "sold" themselves into slavery to avoid starvation. Judgements in lawsuits were another source of enslavement as losers tended to not have sufficient property to pay a judgment with money or goods.

Slavery was also an alternative to execution for criminals. Societies were not rich enough to afford years of food& for convicts so misdemeanor theft got you hung, or impaled, or something. No, the Arabs modernized the slave trade 1200 years ago. Before that enslavement was mostly an alternative to immediate death.

[Abcdefg]

They were masters of innovation.