[Titus-Maximus]

An incredible history, almost more notable for the silence that envelops it than for the horrific treatment that captured black Africans received. Castration, sexual slavery, marches through the Sahara to leave 90% of the original black Africans starving and dead in the sands. The promise of a free Hajj trip to Mecca for African Muslims - who were then trapped and sold into slavery in Arabia. Where is this history being taught? I never hear it in America!

It is amazing how few in the West know this detail.

Do you think Arab nations are teaching their high school students about the African slave experience and their very own complicity?

It is amazing how the British fought slavery all over the globe and into the 20th century and yet never received recognition.

The lesson - there is too much history, even very recent history, that is being hidden for ideological purposes. This book pulls back the covers and shows a hideous past that is never discussed in the conventional history of the African slavery experience.

[heartwood]

My library actually has this - so I reserved it.

[robowombat]

Segal is a leftist screamer who produced such 60’s hits as ‘The Race War’ and ‘The Anguish of India’ (comparing India most unfavorably to that paradise of the toiling masses Mao's China). But for once he seems to have stumbled on a topic of real interest that has been largely white washed down the memory hole.The reviewer understates how many people are still basically enslaved in Muslim lands. The Saudis still traffic in slaves from Africa and the Islamos look with open desire on Europe and North America as a new source of infidel captives.

[null and void]

Well DUH!!! If they taught this, our slave descended Afro-Americans might figure out that Obama does have a slave related ancestry.

As slavers.

[blueunicorn6]

“Mangy charger”? - Nope....the correct term is “mangy dogs”....like those found writing at the guardian newspaper.

[buwaya]

This all was extremely well known at the time - the 19th century - and was a staple theme of the popular press of the day. There were anti-slavery societies and many of the missionary societies had this as a theme also. Many Victorian celebrities - Stanley, Livingstone, Gordon, Burton, etc. - made their reputations on this. Popular authors (Dickens, Thackeray) publishing their serialized novels noted this sort of thing numerous times, and sometimes lampooned it - see Bleak House. Even thoroughly despicable people like King Leopold of Belgium used this as a partial justification.

The modern interest in slavery is not really a matter of historical understanding but of current politics. It is a mine of themes to use in politics and its goal of rent-seeking.

[rawcatslyentist]

"This book pulls back the covers and shows a hideous past"

Were it only in the past. The queeranimals haven't stopped. Only when isSlime is shunned, outlawed, and defeated will they stop doing satans handiwork.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Also the British outlawed slavery early in the 1800’s, which helped reduce the available markets for slaves.