Slavery Actually Started Long Before You Think It Did

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PushBlack
April 5, 2019

Seven hundred years before the Transatlantic Slave Trade, there was the Arab Slave Trade (also known as the Sub-Saharan Slave Trade) from 650 - 2007. 

Across North and West Africa, over 10 million of our ancestors were chained and forced to endure merciless desert walks across hundreds of miles to markets in Egypt and Zanzibar. Yet this wasn’t even close to the most brutal part for those who survived. 

Plantation owners and wealthy rulers with harems looking for guards in Indonesia, China, southwest Asia, and India were willing to pay a premium for young boys... if they were castrated.

They believed amputating some or all of the boys’ organs made them harder workers who posed no sexual threat to free or enslaved women in the household. Despicable!

6 out of 10 bled to death during the heinous procedure, yet it was still considered profitable for traders to continue neutering men like animals. 

This cruelty went on even after the Transatlantic Slave Trade was formally abolished.

This horrendous crime isn’t even over. In 2017, Libya made headlines worldwide after footage of Arabs trading enslaved Blacks surfaced. 

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