If we were to compare apples to apples, the growth of the former slave population in America and European colonies indicates that western slavery was the least harsh. If we put that model to North Africa and the European slaves taken just during The Atlantic slave trade, there would be over 120 million white European slave descendants in North Africa from that time period alone. Considering the mass enslavement of Slavs by Muslims flourished around ~900 AD and continued for a millennia, the white global population would be astronomically higher today.
And I’m sure the American slave owners ran the spectrum from very cruel to very kind. The powers that be have done an amazing job of making ppl think that slavery was a purely British/American invention. Heck, I even believed the “kidnapped from Africa” narrative until my teens and then started reading up on the topic
Yeah - one of my eye openers to history was reading Winston Churchill’s “A History of English Speaking Peoples” - lots of stuff there that gets buried in modern narrative world.
I first learned about the Arabic slave trade from his books
If we were to compare apples to apples, the growth of the former slave population in America and European colonies indicates that western slavery was the least harsh. If we put that model to North Africa and the European slaves taken just during The Atlantic slave trade, there would be over 120 million white European slave descendants in North Africa from that time period alone. Considering the mass enslavement of Slavs by Muslims flourished around ~900 AD and continued for a millennia, the white global population would be astronomically higher today.
And I’m sure the American slave owners ran the spectrum from very cruel to very kind. The powers that be have done an amazing job of making ppl think that slavery was a purely British/American invention. Heck, I even believed the “kidnapped from Africa” narrative until my teens and then started reading up on the topic
Yeah - one of my eye openers to history was reading Winston Churchill’s “A History of English Speaking Peoples” - lots of stuff there that gets buried in modern narrative world.