10 Facts About The Arab Enslavement Of Black People
The Atlanta Black Star, a has put together a very impressive short but succinct video narrative of the Arab slavery of Africans. In honesty, it’s rarely you see this level of historic fact in black reporting. Good for them. The more the black community learn, the more they will see that the entire world suffered through this horrific human evil of a trade as much as their ancestors did, and managed to put it behind them. And the biggest suffering came under Islam. The temptation for wealth brought Muslim slavery to the Atlantic. Unlike historic slavery around the world, Islam never stopped and continues to enslave millions of people around the world.
In the Arab slave trade the transport conditions were so cruel that 90% of the cargo died before reaching the destination. Therefore, African slaves were of much greater monetary value and price on the Transatlantic slave markets than Irish slaves, who were cheap.
Muslim slave keepers transporting their goods to a foreign shore. After declaring a ban on slavery in the early 1800s, Britain enforced the ban on other nations. Here is a batch of black slaves rescued by the British Navi from raids on Muslim slave-trading ships. [East African slaves taken aboard the Dutch HMS Daphne from a Arab dhow, November 1st, 1868]
An African merchant selling his fellow Africans as slaves. African kings and chiefs sold an estimated 140 million of their people into slavery in exchange for clothes and alcohol.
French Colonial authorities arrested a group of African black slave-drivers [see the Islamic cap on many of them which tells you where the permission came from?] during the fight against slavery in Senegal between approximately 1850 And 1920.
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