Speak 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 b

Speak 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.