The Arab Muslim Slave Trade Of Africans, The Untold Story (2014) - "The Muslim slave trade was much larger, lasted much longer, and was more brutal than the transatlantic slave trade and yet few people have heard about it RE POST

It is known and well documented that the Maghreb was a region where slave trading was plentiful. It just prospered extremely well under the Ottoman because the Empire acted as a well organised reservoir connecting buyers and sellers.

Before that we are going into the middle ages and antiquity and sources describing specifically the trade of Europeans (Whites) and their value on the markets, are more sparse. But sources do show the Maghrebis were intensely involved in piracy and ransom.

The question is, what makes you think the Maghrebis all of the sudden changed their slave trading attitudes to favour Whites under the Ottoman and not before?

Studying the history of the region and its connection to Europe, you find a perpetual motif of piracy coming from the region, first pacified under Rome (and its colonisation of what it called "Africa"), then more lawless under Muslim rule, etc.

Of course the reality is that the slave traders caught anybody they could get their hands on. The easiest to get where black women, then middle Eastern women. For White women, you had to raid Europe, which was more difficult and risky.

So it's obvious the picture of the market would be, plentiful amount of dark coloured women, with the few White women captured fetching the highest prices.

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