[blam]

"But conspicuously absent from this list is the ORIGINATORS of the African slave trade: The Muslim Arabs."

In all the areas where there were slaves, today there is a black descendent population. Show me a surviving 'black' population in any of the Arab countries that were receipants of slaves. (Where are they?)

[Illbay]

Consider this:

1) Many, if not most, of the males were eunuchs.

2) The Arab slave trade was not necessarily directed toward Arabia as a market, but up and down the Horn of Africa.

IOW, the Arabs were slave TRADERS. Their only CONSUMPTION in slaves was in terms of male eunuchs.