Arab slave trade

Jean-Léon Gérôme's The Slave Market painting portrays the ugly reality of sex slavery in the Middle East

The Arab slave trade is the longest yet least discussed of the two major slave trades. It began in seventh century as Arabs and other Asians poured into northern and eastern Africa under the banner of Islam. The Arab trade of Blacks in Southeast Africa predates the European transatlantic slave trade by 700 years, [1][2] and in modern times slavery persists in the Islamic world primarily with sex slavery. Unlike the Slavery in the Americas, African slaves traded by the Arabs were castrated and could not reproduce. [3]

Islamic raiders have a fondness for women with very light hair, eyes, and skin tone.[4][5]

In 1704 Joseph Pitts, an English sailor, published his account of being held as a slave by Barbary pirates.[6]

## See also[edit]

* Sack of Baltimore

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 10 Facts About The Arab Enslavement Of Black People Not Taught In Schools
2. ↑ The White Slaves of Barbary
3. ↑ https://jcpa.org/article/the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-lifting-the-taboo/
4. ↑ Islam's 'Fair-Haired Women' Problem
5. ↑ Sexual Slavery: "Nothing to do with Islam"?
6. ↑ A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans