Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "A Day In The Life Of A White Slave In The Ottoman Empire" video.

Moslem slave raids started in the 7th Century AD and during the centuries ranged as far north as Iceland and raided Ireland and all areas of the England. France was raided as well as all European coasts of the Mediterranean, and of course on the Iberian Peninsula. This ignores the slave trade with Africa which continues even today under local governments.
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علي ياسر Yes, Portugal started the major slave trading involving Western Europe; however, the Moslems had been slaving in Africa for centuries by that point. This is not even discussing Africans enslaving Africans. As to Napoleon, his wars were almost 4 centuries after the Portuguese started slave trading. It was a period when North African pirates/slave traders were very active in the Mediterranean area because the Napoleonic Wars kept the European states from having resources to stop it. The US did send a force there to say enough while those wars went on, thereby causing the line "to the shores of Tripoli " in their song.
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Large scale slavery of Black Africans by Western Europeans was begun by the Portuguese when the began circumnavigating of Africa and became a real issue with the settlement of Brazil. With the large scale die offs of the Native Americzns after their enslavement, Black Africans, thought more resistant to tropical diseases and able to work in tropical climates became important; with Portuguese Brazil importing between 4 and 5 million, with a large proportion of the remainder mostly going to the plantations (mainly British, French and Spanish colonies). Of the 10 to 12 million removed from Africa, only about 1 million went to the North American colonies, mostly Southern because it was there that large scale cash ncrop plantations had the climate to exist. Contrary to the 1619 Project chattel slavery was introduced to the British colonies in North America to at least 30 years later. Could a planter from the Caribbean bring a slave there before that point, probably; but under the existing laws that for of servitude didn't exist there until later. Try looking up the book "White Cargo" for some other related but little mentioned facts.
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@Thomas-uf8si Whwt do you call them? This term is still used. I guess you have a more PC term.
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@armored_half-truck The actual size of the slave trade to the Mediterranean Moslem world is unknown, so I can not argue this point; how ever most of the great Africa civilization near the Atlantic coast were Moslem and they all kept large n mbers of slaves; so the total enslaved by Moslems could e asily rival the Atlantic trade, and remember they participated in the slave trade as slavers and Middle men. Also the slave trade continue in the Moslem world for another 60 years past the end of slavery in the US. Open slavery has reappeared following the dismantling of the colonial rule, and very openly following former President Obama's efforts in Libya and his encouragement of the revolt in Syria which moved ISIS into power. I didn't even touch on the Moslem trade in the Med. and Europe over the centuries. So, Blacks enslaved, European enslaved and peoples of the India subcontinent other South Asian peoples.
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@tugrulgul5903 Black Africans adopted Islam thereby are Moslems, Arabs were Moslems and were Semitic. Moslem refers to the followers of the Islamic faith, not race or ethnicity.
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@tugrulgul5903 I don't care about their race, they were Moslems. And yes other pirates operated from the Barbary Coast (what it was called, including Morocco. Slavers from there were just as often piratres. By the way some of the Europeans operating out of there had converted to Islam.
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@tugrulgul5903 If you convert to Islam you are a Moslem operating under Islamic law, despite where you were born. The Dutchman you described had converted, and did not sail under any Dutch colors or at the orders of any Dutch government or entity. So, when I say Moslem, I am referring to people of that faith operating under the laws of that faith.
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@tugrulgul5903 No problem, I was talking only about the faith and its rules.
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