The Atlantic Slave Trade All About Agriculture; the Arab Slave Trade was all About Sex, By Charles Taylor (Florida)
The intellectual liberal elites use the Atlantic slave trade as a Big Argument against nationalism, and White people in general, the descendants of which being eternally guilty. Thus, there must be countless billions paid in reparations, to Blacks existing today, whose ancestors for many generations were not slaves at all. And, the vast majority of those jumping up and down for this hand-out have some White "blood"/ genes. So, does this mean that they have partial guilt as well? Logically, from their own argument, yes.
In any case, as argued below by Hugh Fitzgerald, the Atlantic slave trade was dwarfed by the Arab slave trade, that was based upon sexual slavery, with Whites being desired for the slave houses. Slavic people were harvested for this, with the word "slave" being based upon the root "Slav," which shows the extend of White slavery.
Yet nothing from the liberal academics about this, since the slavery argument is to further woke anti-White Leftist ideology, and in any case these academics are scared of radical Islamists. In the real world outside of their sheltered workshops, the universities, they are like little pink mice, creeping around so as not to become prey to those whose causes they champion.
For the extract below, a trigger warning as it refers to graphic historical facts.
"As I noted earlier, the mortality rate for castrated African slaves seized by Arabs is estimated to have been as high as 80-90%, meaning only 10-20% of those African boys originally seized arrived alive at the slave markets. While the consensus estimate of 28 million black Africans who made it to the Islamic slave markets at first sounds like a lot, over 1300 years (650-1950 A.D.) this amounts to an average of a little more than 20,000 black slaves brought annually from Central and East Africa all the way to those slave markets. Historians have extrapolated from these figures the total number of blacks who must have been originally seized. Given the estimated 80-90% mortality rate for the castrated boys, who made up one-third of the total Arab slave trade, even if we were to assume a much lower mortality rate for the women and children — say 20%-30% — who made up two-thirds of that slave trade, the numbers of blacks seized in the bush must have been many times the 28 million who survived to make it to Arab markets. Some estimates run as high as 140 million, consisting of the 28 million believed to have survived the journey added to another 112 million who did not. (This seems too high to me, for it assumes an 80% mortality rate not just for the castrated boys, but for the women and children). We might, for the purposes of rough calculation, say that 27 (rather than 28) million slaves made it to market, one-third of whom, or 9 million, would have been castrated boys, and 18 million women and children. If the castrated boys had a mortality rate of 10%, it would take 90 million boys seized in the bush to yield 9 million arriving, over 1300 years, at the slave markets. Even if we were to take the lower mortality rate of 80%, that would still give a total of 45 million boys seized in the bush. As for women and children, if 18 million ended up in the Islamic markets, a 20% mortality rate meant that the slavers started out with about 23 million women and children. Assuming, then, the lowest mortality rates for both the castrated boys (80%), and the women and children (20%), we arrive at a figure of 68 million Africans originally seized by Arab slavers.
Now compare this with the Atlantic Slave Trade. Between 1525 and 1866, that is the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Of those, 10.7 million survived the Middle Passage, to disembark in South America, the Caribbean, and North America. In the Atlantic Slave Trade, no boys were castrated – the slaves were intended for agricultural use – and the mortality rate, for the Middle Passage (the trip across the Atlantic) was a mere 10-15%. Nor did slaves in the Atlantic slave trade have to suffer a long trek across the Sahara, or from Central Africa to the Indian Ocean, as did those in the Arab slave trade. This means that the Muslim Arab slave trade involved almost seven times as many Africans — 68 million instead of 12.5 million — as did the Atlantic Slave Trade.
The Arab slave trade was all about sex, the Atlantic slave trade all about agriculture. Men made up two-thirds of those taken by the European slavers, for use as agricultural labor. Women and children made up two-thirds of those taken by the Arab slavers, for use as concubines, with the remaining one-third being the castrated boys who, as eunuchs, guarded the harems. The Arab slavers began using the women and girls as sex slaves as soon as they had been captured. The famous Swiss explorer Johann Burkhardt, who travelled in Nubia and Egypt, reported in 1814 about what he saw: "I frequently witnessed scenes of the most shameless indecency, which the traders, who were the principal actors, only laughed at. I may venture to state, that very few female slaves who have passed their tenth year, reach Egypt or Arabia in a state of virginity." In other words, girls as young as ten were routinely raped by the Arab slavers. …
David Livingstone, the celebrated missionary and explorer who was in East Africa a half-century after Burkhardt, described the barbarity of the Arab slavers in the African Great Lakes region:
"To overdraw its evils is a simple impossibility … We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body and lying on the path. [Onlookers] said an Arab who passed early that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he had given for her, because she was unable to walk any longer. We passed a woman tied by the neck to a tree and dead … We came upon a man dead from starvation … The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves."
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