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The Arab slave trade took more slaves from Africa than the American slave trade. Maybe it's really the Muslims that are the cause of Philippine overfishing? Sti
by lopmotr 8y ago
The Arab slave trade took more slaves from Africa than the American slave trade. Maybe it's really the Muslims that are the cause of Philippine overfishing? Still doesn't make much sense!
- bshepard 8y agoEvery single history I've read about slavery indicates that the middle passage was orders of magnitude larger and more intense than pre-modern slave systems. To the first comment: our world is changing. We are leaving the world system that was created around 1500. That said, we're still inside of it, and so social practices as manifestly illogical and inane as concentration camps ("prisons"), national borders, and the burning of carbon continue.
- lopmotr 8y agoMost of them didn't go to America but it looks like the order of magnitude was about the same for both ~10's of millions. The Arabs castrated their male slaves so they didn't leave a black population for us to notice like America and Sth America have.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines by bringing extraneous flamebait into an already divisive thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: looks like we've had to warn you about this repeatedly in the past. Eventually we ban accounts that won't stop doing it, so will you please stop?