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30-03-2004 01:25 PM #1
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Arabs took had as many slaves as Westerners
Elsewhere on TheSite.org 
Elsewhere on TheSite.org Just been reading a really interesting article in The Week about slavery. Apparently the white slave trade was quite widespread in the Arab world, Arab pirate ships would raid coastal villages and kidnap people to be sold in bazaars and markets, apparently this continued for hundreds of years with hundreds of thousands of european slaves ending up in Arab households!
Also I never realised that the Arabs took 14 million black slaves from Africa from the 11th to 15th century, which is roughly the same as the amount taken by Europeans! Funny how large parts of history are forgotten...
Also slavery was only abolished in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s! Its also still legal other parts of the Arab world such as Sudan and Mauritania...Mediaeval culture I tells ya!
Anyone else read The Week? Very good current affairs magazine I think!
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30-03-2004 01:30 PM #2
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30-03-2004 01:42 PM #3
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Not trying to make any point here, just thought it was interesting...
Noone really knows about the Arab slave trade or the white slaves, well at least I didn't till today! Maybe Im just a history nerd...
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30-03-2004 01:48 PM #4
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You're not trying to make a point are you?
Sick to death of the fekking wedding already.
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30-03-2004 04:28 PM #5
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So did the Romans and the Egyptians... I think slavery must have occured in most cultures at some time... or at least the more technologically/scientifically advanced cultures.Originally posted by groovechampion
Not trying to make any point here, just thought it was interesting...
Noone really knows about the Arab slave trade or the white slaves, well at least I didn't till today! Maybe Im just a history nerd...Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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30-03-2004 04:46 PM #6
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I knew that.
The revolution may well be televised
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30-03-2004 05:13 PM #7
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No point whatsoever!Originally posted by Aladdin
You're not trying to make a point are you?
Its just an interesting part of history that for some reason isnt as well documented.
I thought it was interesting anyway, a lot of people assume that slave trade was confined to ancient Rome and the US. There were in fact loads of white slaves - weird no?Last edited by groovechampion; 30-03-2004 at 05:21 PM.
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30-03-2004 05:43 PM #8
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Then again a lot of people still think Jesus was white.Originally posted by groovechampion
No point whatsoever!
Its just an interesting part of history that for some reason isnt as well documented.
I thought it was interesting anyway, a lot of people assume that slave trade was confined to ancient Rome and the US. There were in fact loads of white slaves - weird no?
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30-03-2004 05:46 PM #9
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You reminded me of Dogma (my second favourite movie).Originally posted by MoonRat
Then again a lot of people still think Jesus was white.
-It bothers Him to see the shit that gets carried out in His name: wars, bigotry... the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and built a belief structure on it.
-Having beliefs isn't good?
-I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea, changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.
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30-03-2004 06:47 PM #10
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Yeah thats Hollywoodisation of history for ya!Originally posted by MoonRat
Then again a lot of people still think Jesus was white.
People think St.George was white too, he was black!
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30-03-2004 07:34 PM #11
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and here in the good old uk we have gangmasters in the 21st century ...
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30-03-2004 11:37 PM #12
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Yeah good point.Originally posted by morrocan roll
and here in the good old uk we have gangmasters in the 21st century ...
Not quite as bad as slavery though.
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31-03-2004 08:05 AM #13
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Not that different from it either. We should know better. Did anyone watch Holidays in the Danger Zone on BBC4 last night? There was some interesting stuff about how slave traders got the slaves in the first place.....Originally posted by groovechampion
Yeah good point.
Not quite as bad as slavery though.
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