The Forgotten History of African Slavery in China

Areo Magazine ^ | 3/19/2021 | PJ Lim

[Titus-Maximus]

Arabs were slave trading out of Africa for centuries before Europeans came. A history that no one teaches.

[HippyLoggerBiker]

“Arabs were slave trading out of Africa for centuries before Europeans came...” AND are still slave trading TODAY

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Arabs?
But...what KIND of Arabs?

[rktman]

But, but, but I thought only ‘yoops’ enslaved people. A LOT of history isn’t presented.

[Rurudyne]

Muslims ... there were whole black Muslim kingdoms and empires growing rich on slaves.

[nascarnation]

I wonder if Grand Caliph Baraq Hussein will donate to the reparations fund?

[rrrod]

Still do...

[abigkahuna]

Fascinating article

[Izzatso]

From the OP article:

"As the scholar Don J. Wyatt points out in The Blacks of Premodern China, there are no records of Chinese owners questioning the morality of enslavement, freeing their slaves or inquiring into their physical well-being. This is especially striking when one considers that recordkeeping was deeply embedded in the culture, especially if an event was out of the ordinary. Wyatt concludes that the Chinese system of enslavement of Africans was just as oppressive and cruel as slavery in the nineteenth-century United States."

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Calypso Louie Farrakhan has some ‘splainin’ to do, too.

[PGR88]

Smart! There’s another whole economy, nearly the size of the USA’s, to demand reparations from!

The only question - how to collect?

[sauropod]

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[Ronald77]

What about all the Irishmen, women and children The British sold around the world before they started trading in blacks.

[EEGator]

As long as white men aren’t involved it’s fine.

[EEGator]

We’re white.

[rktman]

Well there is that. And the capturing and selling of ‘brothers and sisters’ from other tribes by a stronger tribe so they could take over their territory. The “indeginous” tribes did it here. Maybe smaller scale but still did it. Senator fauxkohauntus fails to accept THAT part of her heritage. 😲

[Tell It Right]

If I remember the #'s correctly, they look something like these. See if you can guess which gets the most attention.

300K-400K black African slaves captured by black Africans and brought to America by/for English-speaking masters.

1M-1.2M white slaves captured in Europe by Muslim slave raiders and taken to North Africa.

5M-5.5M black African slaves captured by black Africans and brought to the Americas by/for Spanish-speaking masters.

6M Jews killed in the Jewish Holocaust by Nazis in the 1940's.

10M-12M black African slaves captured by black Africans and taken to Asia for Asian slave masters.

Over 60M American babies aborted in the U.S. in my lifetime.

[Verginius Rufus]

I recall reading once about a Chinese person who was puzzled because an African slave in China didn’t seem to be happy. I don’t remember exactly when this was but probably what we would call the late Middle Ages.

[Midwesterner53]

Not one woke person cares about slavery anywhere except in the country they hate.

[zeestephen]

Where can I read about the forgotten history of African slavery - in Africa - before the Europeans got there?