You don't have to go as far back as the Romans. The Barbary Pirates (from north Africa) took something like a million slaves from Europe over the 300 years that

You don't have to go as far back as the Romans. The Barbary Pirates (from north Africa) took something like a million slaves from Europe over the 300 years that they terrorised European coastlines, mainly raiding the Mediterranean but sometimes coming as far north as Britain and even Iceland. More information: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/ https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barba... Note that Barbary slave raids weren't suppressed until the early 19th century, around the same time that the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended (emphasis on trade; slavery continued in the Americas for decades after the slave trade itself was ended). So slavery of white people was widespread for much of the time that whites were enslaving Africans. (And of course, Africans were enslaving each other for hundreds of years before Europeans showed up and continued to do it after Europeans stopped.) The only thing more absurd than pretending slavery never happened is pretending that Europeans were the only people who ever practiced it.