Arab slavers castrated the men before they reached the market.
I suspect this is why 1,300 years of taking 10 to 17 million Africans left almost no descendants in Arab lands.
Murray Gordon put the death rate at 8 or 9 men for every eunuch who survived the cut. After that, the women went into harems. Tidiane N’Diaye called the result a veiled genocide, because the trade erased the people instead of settling them.
The Atlantic trade took about 12.5 million over 350 years, but it still dominates the argument.
The Arab trade ran 4x as long, moved more people, and Saudi Arabia did not abolish slavery until 1962.
Even when CNN filmed auctions in Libya in 2017, Africans were selling for $400, and the ILO still counted about 90,000 enslaved in Mauritania.
“We keep on speaking of the buyers of the slaves, but nobody speaks of the sellers.”
Jamaica cut the mic on the SUPERBASED MP Everald Warmington who said that while petitioning King Charles for slavery reparations.
The captives shipped there were bought on the West African coast from kingdoms and traders who ran wars and raids to supply the market.
King Ghezo of Dahomey told the British in the 1840s the slave trade was the ruling principle of his people and the source of their glory and wealth.
Britain banned it in 1807, sent the West Africa Squadron, freed about 150,000 Africans and lost nearly 1,600 sailors doing it.
Benin’s president apologized in 1999 for selling Africans into slavery.
Warmington asked Jamaica to match that honesty so they shut him up.