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To: Nachum

Surprisingly accurate account.

I’m not sure about the numbers quoted for Muslim slave trade or how they were arrived at. They sound somewhat on the high side to me, particularly the death rates.

If background information on these numbers is available, I’d like to see it.


11 posted on 09/01/2013 10:14:49 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Sherman Logan
I’m not sure about the numbers quoted for Muslim slave trade or how they were arrived at. They sound somewhat on the high side to me, particularly the death rates.

Not all slaves went into the Atlantic trade. Many went to Muslim countries, across the Sahara, with many dying along the way. The Muslim slave trade had been in place for 600 years before the Atlantic trade started.

Eunuchs were especially prized by Arab buyers, and the process had a high death rate. Generally, men destined to be eunuchs were castrated before the journey, and survivors taken.

18 posted on 09/02/2013 8:18:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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