While America grapples with its own dark history of slavery, an expansive chapter of past horror much more intense has been too conveniently buried by academics who fixate on Western guilt.
This from thegatewaypundit.com.
Justin Marozzi’s eye-opening book, Captives and Companions, shines a light on the Islamic world’s slave trade, which spans over a millennium with unmatched scale and savagery. This is n0t ancient news, rather it is a wake-up call for historians and the peoples of America and Europe alike.
Marozzi has estimated that from the 7th century to the 20th, up to 17 million Africans and Europeans were enslaved in moslem lands, dwarfing the transatlantic trade’s 11-15 million Africans.
Brutal raids targeted black Africans for labor and white Europeans for markets in North Africa and the Middle East. The sheer numbers reveal a system that caused more deaths and misery than often admitted.
In the opulent courts of Abbasid Baghdad, slave concubines like the poet ʿInān rose to fame, dazzling with wit and beauty while navigating deadly risks.
These women—often captured from distant lands, while many too were born into slavery, the product of slave women and free men—became cultural icons but remained property, their lives hanging on a ruler’s whims.
Yet, their stories mix triumph with tragedy, showing resilience amid cruelty.
Raiders from Barbary coasts struck fear across Europe, hitting places like Devon, Cornwall, and even Iceland in 1627, where pirates abducted over 400 people into lifelong bondage.
Castration created eunuchs for harems:
Victorian-era Sudan alone seeing 35,000 boys die yearly from botched operations to supply 3,500 survivors.
Female slaves faced routine violation, arriving in Egypt or Arabia rarely as virgins after brutal journeys.
Such practices highlight a level of barbarism that demands honest reckoning.
Today, descent-based slavery traps over 200,000 in Mali, where people inherit bondage through ancestry, facing violence for resisting.
UN experts urge criminalization, but cultural norms and weak laws allow it to persist. Victims like one defiant man in Bamako declare inner freedom despite poverty.
In Morocco, King Hassan II kept dozens of young concubines until his 1999 death, echoing royal traditions.
Saudi Arabia holds 740,000 in modern slavery, fueled by migrant exploitation under kafala systems. These nations cling to a “tradition” of foreign enslavement dating back ages.
Marozzi’s fearless history exposes this ongoing nightmare we pretend ended long ago. He also illuminates a forgotten chapter of world history that many historians have conveniently overlooked, enabling them to attribute all conceivable evils to the Western world.
Final thought: Far from what liberalism and globalism would have us believe, Western Civilization is civil. Islam is the evil of the world which if not stopped will consume globalism along with Western Civilization.
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Author: Nathanael Greene
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