Modern Day Slave Trade By Arab Muslims

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[PapaBear3625]

He states “most” black male slaves were castrated, and also that most were put to military use. It is unlikely both statements are true, as eunuchs are generally considered to make poor soldiers.

It's not that unlikely for both statements to be true, in different contexts. Castration in those days had a very high mortality rate, and weakened the man so as to reduce his ability to survive the trans-Sahara passage, which had over 80% mortality rate. So even if a majority of slaves were castrated at time of capture, they would probably be a minority of slaves who made it to the destination.

[Elsiejay]

Thanks. Very enlightening.
In all the bad press that slavery in America has gotten, and most of it fully deserved, virtually nothing has been revealed about the “mechanics” of the initial capturing and forceful detention of people to be sold to the traders and transporters, or the identity of the initiators and middlemen. There must be a good book about this aspect of the slave trade, somewhere.