Where Did 14 Million Africans Disappear To? (It Wasn't America)

Описание: The Atlantic Slave Trade is well-documented in American history books, but there is another story—one that lasted longer, transported more people, and was designed to leave no trace behind. This is the history of the Arab Slave Trade.

For 1,300 years, between 14 and 17 million Africans were taken from their homes and transported to the Middle East and North Africa. Unlike the Atlantic trade, which left 45 million descendants in the Americas, this system was engineered for erasure. Men were systematically castrated, and women were absorbed into households, their identities stripped away until their origins vanished completely.

Why this slave trade is missing from Western education

The brutal economics of the trans-Saharan routes

How African kingdoms were incentivized to sell their own people

The role of castration in preventing rebellion and legacy

Where the descendants of these 14 million people actually went

Why silence surrounds this history today

0:00 - The Market Scene
2:45 - Two Slave Trades: The Comparison
6:10 - The Numbers Nobody Talks About
9:30 - Castration and Erasure
14:20 - The Women: Harems and Absorption
19:50 - The Sahara: Roads Paved with Bones
26:00 - Modern Archaeology and Mass Graves
29:15 - Why You Don't Know This Story

Bernard Lewis, Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Ronald Segal, Islam's Black Slaves

Ehud R. Toledano, The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression

Heinrich Barth's Travels in Africa (1857)

Reports from David Livingstone (1870s)

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