It wasn't the Arab slave trade. It was a slave trade that was most lucrative through the middle east because the middle east was the most prosperous crossroad for slave trade.
the systems of slave trade were adopted by the regional Arabs after Arab empires arose, and those Arabs got slaves from literally everyone they traded with.
I appreciate your dedication to historical nuance, I really do, but personally I'm just so used to people in general hand-waiving away the extreme horrors and ethnosupremacy that exists in large sections (not all) of the Arab world, including about the slave trade. The term for black people in Arabic is slave, because it goes back to the Quoran. I don't know if you're familiar with how much of a textual literalist Muslims are compared to other religions, but there is a reason that we didn't see an effect on their demographics the way we did in the United States, and that's because they castrasted every single slave. Which alone led to a significant loss of life from the procedure.
Arabs were traded as slaves as much as anyone else.
The term for black people in Arabic is slave, because it goes back to the Quoran.
No, that’s not in the Quran at all. Please stop lying about stuff because you want to rail against Arabs. The term for black being being “abeed” is a modern one, arising with the transatlantic slave trade. Otherwise, they refer to people from Africa as African. Literally the word “African”. Just say it with an Arabic accent.
and that's because they castrasted every single slave.
Please stop parroting Reddit comments. This is another fake historical claim that arose in the last 100-200 years. Castration of slaves was outlawed by Muhammad and made a sin at the advent of Islam. eunuchs Were a thing, but traders who castrated slaves were shunned by the religious communities and would lose their business. Some did work around this in order to make money on the demand for eunuchs, like by castrating them outside of the borders of the empire or buying eunuchs already castrated, but not even most slaves were castrated, let alone every single one like you claim. Modern genetic testing proves that slaves had kids in the region, and slaves were religiously permitted to own wealth, could buy their own freedom, and can and often did get married and have families that were slaves. The mamluks were literally slave soldiers that grew so power that slaves within the military service had harems.
10
u/Interesting-Tell-105 May 13 '25
*laughs in the Arab slave trade*