frecklesgod

Did you know why no one talks about the Arab trans saharan slave trade? Because they castrated and technically killed all the people they enslaved unlike Europeans. For over more than 1,300 years, the Arab slave trade largely erased the prospect of organized descendant communities that could later demand recognition or reparations. Male captives were commonly castrated to produce eunuchs for harem and palace service, a procedure that killed a large share of them, while female captives were taken mainly for concubinage. Survivors and their mixed offspring were absorbed into Arab populations through conversion to Islam, manumission, intermarriage, and cultural assimilation, producing the groups now known as Black Arabs. The result was the near-absence of a distinct, self-identifying victim diaspora—unlike the outcome of other slave trades—which some observers link to broader differences in social and political development between Western societies and regions of the Sahel and Arabian desert. The Europeans were kinder and more humane.