Talk:Servitude

Slave trade Jews probably did not amount to much more than 3% of the slave trade. They may have underwritten maritime insurance and loaned money to buyers but not shipping. Arab and American slavery differed in key aspects: American slavery was a racialized, hereditary chattel system focused on land-based plantation labor, while Arab slavery had a longer history, involved raiding and purchasing slaves, often targeted men for military and domestic roles, and lasted much later, though both had devastating impacts. American slavery was designed to create a permanent, racial caste, while There was a moral objection.

Muslims have advocated slavery through conquest from its beginning. They did commonly castrated males but impregnated females which altered the DNA of their society and ruling class. For several decades children have been taught whites are the problem when in fact whites have been an oppressed minority in the world through much of history which is why they have often fled north.

Arab slavery, though brutal and dehumanizing, sometimes had more flexibility and different forms of exploitation, but also saw high mortality rates for enslaved people

Racialized and hereditary: Slavery was based on race, particularly Black people, and became a hereditary status passed down through generations.  Chattel system: Enslaved people were treated as personal property, to be bought, sold, and inherited, often with no legal rights.  Slaves were human resources Classes of slaves. Economic purpose: Primarily driven by large-scale plantation agriculture, such as cotton, tobacco, and sugar.  Slavery merchants The Portuguese dominated the slave trade to Brazil from 1526 and 1867., while British ships transported a large portion of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean and North America.

   • British: Transported around 3.4 slaves 1640 and 1807 followed by the Spanish:  and French, and the
   • Dutch: 
   • Americas:  approximately 12 million Africans transported across the Atlantic between the 1500s and 1800s.Corsairs between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.   

approximately 90% of all Africans sold into the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were enslaved by other Africans, Ashanti, Nigerian, Swahili.

Muslims have been involved in the slave trade from their inception because it religiously accepted and  encouraged.

Yet 10–30% of enslaved Africans brought to the Americas were Muslim.       . 

El Cid Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting with both Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid, which would evolve into El Çid, and the Spanish honorific El Campeador. He was born in Vivar, a village near the city of Burgos.

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End date: Abolished in the United States in 1865 following the Civil War.  Arab slavery Longer history: The trans-Saharan and other trades existed for centuries, pre-dating the trans-Atlantic trade and lasting until the 20th century.  Diverse acquisition: Acquired through raiding, warfare, and purchase from local African rulers, who sometimes acted as middlemen. 

Diverse roles: Enslaved people served in a wide variety of roles, including domestic labor, military service (especially eunuchs), and concubines.  Gender imbalance: Historically, more males were taken for labor and military service compared to females. 

Later abolition: Abolition was a much more protracted process, often requiring international pressure and internal revolts, and some forms of slavery continued clandestinely into the 20th century.  Similarities

Brutality: Both systems were characterized by extreme brutality, violence, and the denial of human rights and dignity. 

Dehumanization: Both treated enslaved people as property, not as human beings. 

Racial bias: Both systems often involved racial bias, with lighter-skinned individuals often having more opportunities for freedom or social mobility. 

As a deep dive historian for over 60 years who actually reads the the public and private correspondence of the people who lived history from Babylon to the present including those of lawmakers, rebels, indigenous people, their slaves, their philosophers and poets I can tell you that:   If people listen to this unhistorical bias propaganda "crap" they will remain ignorant of both history and humanity.