Posted on 05/24/2010 9:34:34 AM PDT by Starman417
bump
The article didn’t mention that the Africans (mostly of the Muslim persuasion) enslaved more Europeans than Europeans enslaved Africans [attribution to Thomas Sowell].
Many of the male Europeans became Galley Slaves — which had a rather short survival rate, while the females became household slaves. The Koran not only allowed it, but encouraged it.
Actually a number of tribes pressed some of their own into slavery on a basis of some "eugenic" ideas. And some other tribes killed their own that didn't have the desired physical or mental properties.
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