The slavery issue prompts more revisionism than any other part of history, mainly because the "facts" keep getting in the way of the Myth.
- Inconveniently it's a fact that the earliest written records such as the Code of Hammurabi (circa 1760 BC) show slavery was well established without a black person in sight.
- The Romans had far more White European and Asiatic slaves, than they ever had Black.
- The Anglo Saxons had White British slaves (recorded in the Domesday Book property records in 1086).
Viking Slave Collar From Dublin |
- The Norse Vikings founded Dublin (Dyflin) as the first town in Ireland in 841AD, in order to take Irish Slaves.They also took Slaves across Modern Finland, and The Baltic States, as well as Slavic peoples from the modern Ukraine, and Russia.
- There were Black tribes with Black slaves, long before the whites ever got there.
- It was Black slavers from the coastal African nations and tribes who provided most of the Black slaves sold to the Europeans, and also to the Arabs who slaved for the Syrian and Saudi Arabian slave markets (even today its alleged).
- Black 'Moors' (The "Blackamoors" of Shakespearean terminology), from North Africa, regularly slave raided Europe as far as Cornwall (England) as late as the **17th century. In 1627 AD Moors kidnapped 400 men and women from Iceland. Dorset historian David Burnett reports that in 1638 AD, the corsairs even pillaged Poole in England, and the last Muslim slave raid in England was in 1720 AD. Today there are still slaves in the Muslim black states of Northern Africa e.g. Mali.
Google searches will find the other well documented history re-writes.
*Not all black historians or commentators have fallen into this dead end intellectual trap.
**White Slaves were imported from Western Europe to North Africa in the 15th and 16th Centuries. In all about 1.5 million Europeans were transported to the Barbary Coast. It was a period when Europe was preoccupied by sectarian wars and north-western European navies were depleted.
The trade was run by the Moors and the expeditions were often captained by Europeans (Those who had converted to Islam to escape being slaves themselves), with North African crews. They would raid coastal areas and carry away sometimes whole villages to the Moorish slave markets. It appears that women often fared better, as brides, than men. The true record of this history has not yet been fully researched (and never will be in the UK).
Why are we not taught this at school?
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