Did the Harvard Professor Write “Stupidly”?

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-23-10 | Wordsmith

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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.

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To be honest, I think most of it was just tribal. Give an aggressive tribe some gold or better weapons, and they’ll gladly crush their rivals for you.

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.