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Slavery has been a characteristic of almost every human grouping at some time or another. It seems you are not aware of the large number of Europeans and Africa
by vixen99 9y ago
Slavery has been a characteristic of almost every human grouping at some time or another. It seems you are not aware of the large number of Europeans and Africans (and in East Asia) who were enslaved by Muslims in the 18th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl...
- vim_wannabe 9y agoWe don't talk about that.
- Brakenshire 9y agoSpeak for yourself! I've had quite a few conversations about this in the last year, about the Barbary slave trade in the late middle ages, or the treatment of black slaves in the Arabic slave trade. I saw a European TV programme about the latter. I also saw some artifacts related to it in a museum. If you're hoping to get a reasonable coverage of history from reading newspapers or watching tv news, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.