It is amazing but if Segal wasn’t a communist, the Guardian never would have reviewed it.
That said, Segal constantly says that the Western slave treatment was worse, but I find those words are window dressing to his leftist reviewers because when the cases are laid side by side, I actually found the Islamic trade more barbaric - and worse - still continuing.
The British, the evil white empire builders of all time, were actually on the forefront of fighting the slave trade, and hanged Arab slave traders. Their heroic actions in fighting the slave trade are never discussed in academia since it runs contrary to the racist oppressive land grabbers that they are forever painted.
All true, but let’s not forget that it was British subjects who brought slavery to the U.S.