All of this talk of Asiatic and Egypt and Moors when we SHOULD be talking about the tribes sold in the West African slave trade

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Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common

Editor's note (3/21/20): For an update on this story, visit: Why is a 16-year-old book on slavery so popular now? A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been...

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Barbary Captivity Narratives - UM Clements Library

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BBC - History - British History in depth: British Slaves on the Barbary Coast

Their untold story, by Professor Rees Davies

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They weren’t sold by their own. They were captured. It’s a difference between spoils of war and building an economy

 

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They weren’t sold by their own. They were captured. It’s a difference between spoils of war and building an economy

There were white people, selling white people. The slaves sold in Africa were also captured from other tribes. War had nothing to do with it homie. How about you post some sources proving your point?

 

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There were white people, selling white people. The slaves sold in Africa were also captured from other tribes. War had nothing to do with it homie. How about you post some sources proving your point?

Look at my original post. I said selling to other nations. I’ve seen Arabs with African slaves. Chineses with African slaves. An Europeans with African slaves. I’ve never seen Africans with Arab Chinese or European slaves, let alone sold to them by them.
And yes they were sold by other tribes. Because they have tribalism. But they are still the same nation of people. And when they sold them they sold them to other nations.
No need to get emotional about this just a friendly debate put out there.
And what do you want me to post a source for? The slave trade ?
I mean my point was based off the source that was posted. That’s what the article was talking about