[SJackson]

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[DTA]

"In the Moslem world slaves were considerably cheaper, far more widely available, and regarded as a dispensable commodity. They were effectively worked to death, and thus left no descendants."

[Lent]

Truth bump. The Islamics far outdid the Europeans in the length and breath of their participation in the slave trade (continuing). Indeed, the Ottoman Empire routinely took slaves from the Slavic, Greek , Armenian Christian population which were dhimmis under them