Was the Arabic slave trade more humane than the Western one?

Absolutely not. The group of boy slaves shown below were destined to be harem guards: The movie 500 Years After by filmmaker Owen 'Alik Shahadah, released in 2005, omits to mention the cruelty and scale of the Arab slave trade or their castration ... read more

Arabs killed more Africans in transit, especially when crossing the Sahara Desert, than Europeans and Americans, and over more centuries, both before and after the years of the Atlantic slave trade. Arab Muslims began extracting millions of black African slaves centuries before Christian nations did. read more

Muslim slavery was more humane. Gwyn Campbell writes in his book Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Slave Societies) 1st edition : “What was notably different from the slavery of the western world, however, was the degree to which they [slaves] were protected by Muslim law. read more