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1.312 The Story of Black Slavers
The first video below was removed from youtube. It's title was "Black People Started Slavery" and had information from Thomas Sowell, himself a black man. Instead of erasing the link from this web page I leave it there so people are aware that important videos are being removed from youtube.
The following video is still online and is very good. It shows how every culture black, white, Islamic etc. had slaves. Its narrator asks the question of "Why if every culture had slaves, are we only taught about black enslavement by white people?"
There are Muslim propagandists who tell us that America was built on the backs of black Muslim slaves. The truth is that Muslims in Africa often captured non-Muslim Africans and sold them to the Atlantic slave traders; as a rule, they didn’t capture or sell their fellow Muslims, as that would have been against the Qur’an’s injunction to be “ruthless to unbelievers, merciful to one another” (48:29). A few Muslims, however, were caught and sold to slave traders who brought them to the United States, likely for fighting against the Muslims who sold them into slavery, or simply by mistake. But there was no more than a handful of known Muslims among the slaves in the early United States. Also, to attribute the nation’s economic foundations to slave labor ignores the fact that half the country outlawed slavery from the beginning, and there was only a small percentage of people owning slaves in the areas where slavery was legal.
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