"There were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships"
Grateful if someone could school the uneducated and biased cow on the Barbary slave trade then. Black people absolutely do not have the monopoly on being slaves; ALL races were at it.
Their untold story, by Professor Rees Davies
www.bbc.co.uk
For over 300 years, the coastlines of the English Channel and south west of England were at the mercy of Barbary pirates. Men, women and children were kidnapped to be sold as slaves...
www.historic-uk.com
Better still, instead of banging on and on and on and on about things that happened hundreds of years ago. If these morons could kindly put their efforts into stopping modern slavery down at their local car wash, high street nail salon, cheap restaurant/cafe etc. I absolutely do not understand why people like her are obsessed with ranting about the ancient past, but do nothing about improving things going on in UK towns right now.
The Muslim Barbary pirates operated out of the north African coastal regions of the Ottoman Caliphate and entire populations of southern coastal towns in Italy, France, Spain, England and Ireland were decimated. That's Islam
plus white Europeans as victims, so that's one victimhood gong you ain't ever gonna hear getting banged on by the woke crowd.
The same crowd who'll pull down statues re Britain's colonial past but ignore that while the British Empire was in full swing, so was the Ottoman Empire, and life under the British was fecking paradise in comparison to what was going on in the Ottoman Caliphate.
If anything's been 'appropriated', it's the issue of slavery. Who owned slaves? Greeks and Romans, Vikings, all North African and Middle eastern states (and some still do), most African empires, in one form or the other most of the South American empires, and indirectly most European empires prior to Britain enforcing abolition. Yeah, Britain put an end to that
tit which was commonplace in the entire world at the time, while slavery was so ingrained in African culture it carried on well into the 20th century.
There's an unwillingness to accept, and deal with, the historic fact that those who initially enslaved the unfortunates who were transported to the New World were AFRICANS, not Whites. African kings, queens, and tribal chiefs had been trading their fellow Africans (an estimated 20 million) to Arab slave traders for at least 600 years before the transatlantic trade began. No European armies were needed to overcome resistance to the transatlantic trade. Quite the contrary, the African elite enriched themselves at the expense of fellow Africans. Their raiding parties captured the African victims, then bound and marched them to the coast for sale to the European traders. All of this is well known, but dare not be discussed.
But personally, I think it's about time the Normans were held to account for their blatant violation of our human rights when they embarked on their invasion of Britain.
