The Dark Untold History The Arabs Have Tried To Erase

the 25th of March was as usual commemorated as the  day Britain officially abolished its slave trade in 1807. but how many recall that Arab slavers  were the first and last in modern times to ship millions of Africans out of the continent as  slaves the Arab history of anti-black racism predates European anti-black racism by several  centuries the early Islamic empire exhibited all the characteristics of anti-black racism and black  suffered the lowest form of bondage Europeans took photographs

of chained black African slaves and  Arab slave trading vessels on the east coast of Africa in the 1880s slavery persisted openly  in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries in the latter half of the 20th century 100 years  after slavery was abolished in the United States as late as the 1960s African Muslims still sold  slaves when they arrived on pilgrimages as a way to finance their pilgrimages Arab Nations lagged  far behind the rest of the world in abolishing slavery Saudi Arabia and Yemen i

n 1962 United Arab  Emirates in 1963 Oman in 1970 however unlike the rest of the Arab Nations hereditary racial slavery  persists in Mauritania despite multiple official attempts to abolish it in 1981 by Presidential  decree Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery but no criminal laws  were passed to enforce the ban under International pressure in 2007 the mauritanian government passed  a law allowing slaveholders to be persecuted however that law has rarely been enfor

ced far  more anti-slavery human rights activists have been prosecuted than the handful of mauritanian  white Masters in addition slavers are offered compensation for freeing the enslave saved while  the victims of the brutality are offered nothing in 2015 under International and some domestic  mobilization pressure the mauritanian government created Three Special courts to prosecute  slavery but so far they have only tried very few cases however that's just not all  about this oddly unique sect

of slavers the Arab slavers at some point in history driven  outrageously by their odd ambition for economic power and human control had their African male  captives subjected to unimaginable suffering and exploitation castration Yes you heard  correctly now it is of utmost importance to note that what you are about to hear might seem  like comparing which between two evils is better it does not detract from the fact that the trade  in human beings was unspeakably hideous in the Americas slaves

were allowed to marry though  their children could be sold off like puppies right before their eyes but what happened to  the blacks enslaved by the Arabs Arabs castrated African slaves thus they could not reproduce their  kinds to multiply and replenish the Earth welcome to yet another video segment in this video we are  taking a dive at one of the darkest chapters in the human history marked by its profound brutality  and stomach twisting inhumanity the Arab slave trade and the castration of

their male captives  during this dark era before we get right into this head-spinning narrative don't forget to like  this video as a way of acknowledging our efforts share with family and friends to keep spreading  our eye-opening black narrative And subscribe to keep the Channel Growing your support means a  lot to us the castration of male captives during the Arab slave trade would be a forever lasting  devastating experience for the individuals who were subjected to this depraved inhuman pra

ctice  in their families in his book slaves and slavery published in 1998 the British writer Duncan Clark  defined slavery as the reduction of fellow human beings to the legal status of chattels allowing  them to be bought and sold as Goods this in essence is what both the Arabs and Europeans did  to Africans to justify the shipping of millions of Africans as slaves to far away lands in Asia  in particular the Middle East and the Americas the African slave trade surely one of the  most tragic an

d disturbing episodes in the history of mankind Clark uncovers in his book  had its origins in the intervention of forces from the civilizations that developed in the  regions of the Mediterranean Sea today's Europe and the Middle East into the arena of the more  fragmented civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa Africa became a source of slaves for the  cultures of the Mediterranean World many centuries before the discovery of the Americas  but it was that Discovery and the resulting shift in Focus

towards the Atlantic that prompted  the culminating explosive growth in slavery with such tragic effect slavery was in fact a  central feature of life in the Mediterranean World especially in Mesopotamia ancient Egypt  Greece Imperial Rome and the Islamic societies of the Middle East and North Africa the most  important source of slaves in medieval Europe Clark's research shows was the coast of Bosnia  on the Eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea the word slave and its cognates in most modern  Eur

opean languages is itself derived from slavus's meaning slav the ethnic name for the inhabitants  of this region for various reasons including the harshness of the terrain and endemic Warfare among  local Clans Bosnia proved the most convenient and long lasting of these slave supplying regions  whichever Clan gained a temporary upper hand was always willing to sell its captured rivals in  exchange for the goods of the Mediterranean world in the markets of the ancient romanized city of  Ragusa th

at is present-day Dubrovnik from there Slavs were shipped as slaves by Venetian Merchants  to supply new markets in the Islamic World thus for the Islamic World Clark further reveals Slavs  provided the major source of slaves in the 250 or so years between the defeat at the Battle of  Poitier in ad732 that forced the consolidation of their dramatic conquests across North Africa and  the Iberian Peninsula cutting back the flow of War captives and the expansion of the import of black  Africans acr

oss the Sahara from around A.D 1000 the number of people enslaved by Muslims has  been a hotly debated topic especially when the millions of Africans forced from their homelands  are considered with full control of a great part of Africa the Arabs began to capture young boys  and girls and took them to Egypt where they were sold into slavery within Africa or taken  across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia China Southwest Asia and India by the 10th Century  the demand for slaves from Africa to work a

s Plantation hands sex slaves domestic maids and  slave Warriors had increased greatly so much so that an estimated number of five thousand slaves  were shipped out of Africa a year the historian Paul Lovejoy estimates that some 9.85 million  Africans were shipped out as slaves to Arabia and in small numbers to the Indian subcontinent  Lovejoy breaks his figures down as follows between ad650 and 1600 an average of 5 000 Africans were  shipped out per annum by the Arabs this makes a rough total o

f 7.25 million then between 1600 and  1800 another 1.4 million Africans were shipped out by the Arabs the 19th century represented  the highest point of the Arabian trade as 12 000 Africans were vehemently shipped out per annum  the total figure for the 19th century alone was 1.2 million slaves to Arabia some other historians  estimate altogether that between ad650 and 1900 10 million to 20 million people were enslaved by Arab  slave Traders others believe that over 20 million enslaved Africans

alone had been delivered through  the trans-saharan route alone to the Islamic world Dr John Allen Bella Azuma estimates in his 2001  book The Legacy of Arab Islam in Africa that over 80 million more black people died over that  route the Arab slave trade was so intense bloody merciless to say the least the cruelty on African  captives by the Arabs was beyond telling similar to the transatlantic slave trade captured slaves  were beaten to be weakened and chained together however captured victims

in the sub-Saharan  slave trade had to endure several weeks of walking through the desert carrying loads for  their new masters from west or east Africa to where they were eventually sold in the slave  markets Cairo Baghdad Istanbul Mecca and other centers these slaves played various roles in  the economy of the Muslim World they were used as servants Harem Keepers laborers and Fields  mines and hydraulic yards and as cannon fodder in armies in several of his detailed book about  the slave trad

e British Explorer Henry Hamilton Johnston explains how several slaves died in the  desert While others who fell sick or were badly bruised and could not make it were brutally  killed by their masters David Livingstone the British missionary traveler and explorer was so  upset by the way the Arabs treated their African slaves that he wrote back home in the year 1870.  these were his words in less than I take to talk about it these unfortunate creatures 84 of them  wended their way into the villa

ge where we were some of them the eldest were women from 20 to 22  years of age and there were youths from 18 to 19 years but the large majority was made up of boys  and girls from 7 years to 14 or 15 years of age a more terrible scene than these men women  and children I do not think I ever came across to say that they were emaciated would not give  you an idea of what human beings can undergo under certain circumstances each of them had his neck in  a large forked stick weighing from 30 to 40

pounds and five or six feet long cut with a fork at the  end of it where the branches of a tree spread out the women were tethered with bark thongs which  are of all things the most cruel to be tied with of course the bark thongs are soft and supple  when first stripped off the trees but a few hours in the sun would make them about as hard as  the iron round packing cases the little children were fastened by thongs to their mothers as we  passed along the path through which these slaves had trav

eled I was shown a spot in the bushes  where a poor woman the day before unable to keep up with the March and most likely to hinder it was  cut down by the acts of one of these slave drivers we went on further and was shown a place where  a child lay it had been recently born and its mother was unable to carry it from debility  and exhaustion so the slave trader had taken this little infant by its feet and dashed its  brains out against one of the trees and thrown it in there such was the brutal

ity meted out to  the Africans by the Arabs looking at all this in a very factly honest manner the totality of  the unthinkable horrid practices besetted upon a certain group of people historians agree that it  is a mistake to equate the bare survival of Africa with cultural or social or economic stagnation  for the slave trade visited such panoply of tragically interconnected disasters into the lives  of every African for centuries so that they have worked their way into the very racial memory 

of the continent and its people particularly females that only with time and kindness can it  be expunged from the psyche of Africa the Arabs treatment of black Africans can aptly be termed  an African genocide Arabs killed more Africans in transit especially when crossing the Sahara  Desert then Europeans and Americans combined and over more centuries both before and after the  years of the Atlantic slave trade Arab Muslims began extracting millions of black African  slaves centuries before Ch

ristian nations did Arab slave Traders removed slaves from Africa  for about 13 centuries compared to the three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade African  slaves transported by Arabs across the Sahara Desert died more often than slaves making  the Middle Passage to the New World by ship slaves invariably died within five years if they  worked in the ottoman Empire's Sahara salt mines black Africans did not enjoy immunity to many of  the diseases found in the Arab world which also resulted in

high death rates in West Africa the  Arab slave trade encompassed a vast region from the Niger Valley to the Gulf of Guinea this  traffic followed the trans-saharan roads The Crossing could last up to three months with a  high mortality rate due to the dire conditions of the trip here is the testimony of the German  Explorer Gustav nachtegal the poor children of the black country seemed to meet death here at the  last stage of a long hopeless and painful Journey the long journey accomplished wi

th insufficient  food and scarce water the contrast between the rich natural resources and the humid atmosphere  of their Homeland and the dry and anemic air of the desert the fatigue and the privations imposed  by their masters and by the circumstances in which they find themselves all this has gradually ruined  their young strengths the memory of their Homeland that has disappeared along the way Their Fear of  an unknown future the endless Journey under the blows hunger thirst and deadly exhau

stion have  paralyzed their last faculties of resistance if the poor creatures lack strength to get up and  walk again they are simply abandoned and their minds slowly fade under the destructive effect of  the Rays of the sun hunger and thirst according to the work of some historians the Arab slave trade  has affected more than 17 million people in the Saharan region alone more than 9 million African  captives were deported and two million died on the roads this despicable phenomenon was legitim

ized  by Islam as Christianity would later condone the transatlantic slave trade for example the Tunisian  Arab historian IBN khaldoon from 1332-1406 wrote that the only peoples to accept slavery are  the Negroes because of their lower degree of humanity their place being closer to the animal  stage another one the Algerian Arab Theologian Ahmed al-wancharisi from 1430-1431-1508 offered  legal and religious recommendations this he said I have been asked about slaves from the land of  abyssinia w

ho profess monotheism and accept the rules of the Holy law is it legal or not to buy  and sell them if their conversion to Islam comes after the establishment of a property right on  these slaves then Islam does not demand Liberation because slavery was caused by unbelief the state  of servitude persists after The Disappearance of unbelief because of its existence in the past the  Arab slave trade was characterized by appalling violence rape and worst of all castration of black  male slaves whil

e African women and girls were targeted captured and deported by Arab slavers  for use as sex slaves the male captives were on the other hand pitilessly castrated to prevent  them from reproducing and becoming a stock castration of male slaves became a habit among  slave Traders due to the fact that they were in higher demand stronger noted to work faster and  more efficiently and were not a threat to slave masters and owners who feared that their wives  concubines and female slaves would have a

ffairs with them the suffering inflicted on the victims  of castration was profound encompassing physical and psychological trauma castration was done  to boys between the ages of 9 and 12 as it was believed that they survived the process more than  an adult or adolescent although very many did not survive the process as they often died during or  after the harrowing operation whites died more so slavers concentrated more on blacks this was  the darkest chapter in history that highlights the ext

ent to which humans were dehumanized and  exploited for gain here's a more detailed insight into this practice one economic factors one of  the primary reasons for castrating male captives was economic the exporting countries had good  economic incentives to castrate male slaves before they were shipped off in the medieval slaving  industry that was designed for exporting Slavic prisoners of War to the Arab world castrating  the slaves was an integral part of the process castration was then perf

ormed in the famous  castration houses in Venice Unix or castrated male slaves were highly sought after due to  their perceived trustworthiness and reliability eunuchs were considered valuable Commodities  in Arab societies thus fetching much higher prices in slave markets compared to non-castrated  slaves their lack of reproductive capability meant that they could serve in positions of trust and  Authority without posing a threat to the owner's hereditary wealth and power eunuchs were often  em

ployed in sensitive positions such as Harem guards administrative posts and as servants  in Elite households they served in influential positions in the Abbasid caliphates Administration  with some even rising to the rank of vizier the economic incentives gained by slave Traders  from exporting black eunuchs to the Arab Nations encouraged the practice of castration in some  cases such as the zanj rebellion in the 9th century Iraq castrated slaves were sought after  to work in dangerous and deman

ding environments like salt mines this practice had persisted  for centuries in the Arab slave trade as late as 1903 there were still 194 African eunuchs  in service to the ottoman ruling family two control and domination castration was employed by  Arab slavers as a means of exerting control and dominance over their male captives by removing  their ability to procreate the slavers aim to eliminate any potential threats of rebellion or  the establishment of rival lineages additionally castration

was intended to ensure that these  slaves would remain solely devoted to their Master's demands without the distractions of  family or personal attachments three social dislocation enslaved males who were castrated  were forcibly removed from their communities and families this social dislocation had far-reaching  consequences as it disrupted the social fabric of African societies and led to balance gender ratios  in regions where castration was prevalent such as East Africa and the Sudan entir

e Villages were  affected as young men were captured and subjected to this brutal practice many eunuchs who served  in the Harem of the Top Copy Palace in Istanbul remained in servitude for Life isolated from their  African Roots their roles as loyal servants or guards sometimes meant they were isolated from  their own cultural backgrounds and communities for Life young boys were captured and castrated so  that when they grew up they could serve as eunuchs in harems this slave ship was photograp

hed in  1896. this large group of young boys may have been destined for castration to serve as eunuchs the  slaves in the photograph were headed to a Muslim country well after the American Civil War in fact  slavery in the United States was a good bit more Humane than slavery in the Arab world it was  Bloody for Africans bloody beyond words in some cases African societies would engage in castration  as a preemptive measure to protect their youth from being captured and castrated by Arab slave  T

raders this reflects the Deep fear and Trauma associated with this practice 4. psychological and  physical trauma castration was itself a traumatic experience both physically and psychologically  for those subjected to it the surgery itself was often performed without anesthesia under crude  and unhygienic conditions leading to excruciating pain and a high risk of infection many African  boys did not survive their castration surgery six out of every 10 people who were mutilated  died from their

wounds in castration centers this is a prime reason why there are not many  communities of blacks living in the non-african Muslim world today despite the millions of black  African slaves who were sold into the Muslim world castration led to hormonal imbalances on survivors  affecting the physical development and health of victims without testosterone eunuchs often  suffered from various health issues such as decreased muscle mass fatigue obesity osteoporosis  and a lack of secondary sexual cha

racteristics 5. cultural and religious beliefs some societies  believe that castrated individuals were spiritually purer and more suitable for certain  religious duties for instance in some Islamic societies eunuchs were considered more appropriate  for guarding holy sites the guardianship of the Holy Kaaba in Mecca included the use of African  eunuchs some men were castrated to be eunuchs in domestic service and the practice of neutering  male slaves was not limited to only black males the Khal

ifa in Baghdad at the beginning of the  10th Century had seven thousand black eunuchs and four thousand white eunuchs in his Palace  Wright's author Ronald Siegel in his 2002 book Islam's black slaves the other black diaspora in  the Arab world demand for castrated slaves was so high that even with the appalling death rate  from the procedure it was still profitable which explains why there is no large African diaspora  community in Arab countries castrated men don't father children the Arab sla

ve trade had a tragic  impact on the evolution of African societies some areas were completely devastated and depopulated  Welsh Explorer Henry Morton Stanley from 1841 to 1904 was a horrified witness of this traffic  he wrote that after the depredations of the Arab traffickers the black blood flows toward  the north the Equator smells corpses as one commentator puts it could it be true that the  corrosive effects of four centuries of Commerce in humans with its Temptation its inbuilt  opportuni

sm its reduction of humans to a cash value its cycles of Revenge and its inevitable  physical brutality have built lasting flaws into the African pattern of thought and action the  United Nations has made March 23 the International Day of remembrance of the victims of slavery  and the transatlantic slave trade and UNESCO has made August 23 the International Day for the  remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition when will there be an international day to  commemorate the victims of the Ara

b Muslim slave trade when will an international research program  address this subject when will a project be implemented to identify restore and publicize the  sites and monuments linked to this Arab trade like the existing projects concerning the transatlantic  trade when will educational material be produced in cultural and artistic programs conducted to  raise awareness of this criminal activity when will a museum on the Arab Muslim slave trade be  established this brings us to the end of th

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