One of the most important and least discussed aspects of world history is this: the Islamic slave trade.
I have never seen a Western history textbook discuss this in detail. The topic at most gets a short paragraph. Yet the magnitude of the Islamic slave trade was immense compared to the Western slave trade, meaning the West African slave trade.
This video offers a very good summary of it. It is by Stefan Molyneux.
Wikipedia describes him as follows: "a Canadian far-right, white nationalist podcaster and YouTuber who is known for his promotion of scientific racism and white supremacist views."
From time to time, I watch brief portions of a video produced by Molyneaux. I have never seen a full one. He usually goes on for at least an hour. I run out of patience.
I have been impressed by his videos because of two things. First, I don't think I've seen anybody stand in front of the camera with a blank background and talk for an hour. He is articulate. He doesn't trip over his tongue. He is obviously intelligent. He does his homework.
The second thing that impresses me is how many hits his videos get. These have to be among the lowest cost of production talking-head videos on the web. Yet he has a huge following.
This video below has had over a million hits. This is incredible.
The video is based on good research. He didn't do original research, but he is familiar with the basic historical materials of the African slave trade.
I have known about the Islamic slave trade ever since I taught Western civilization at a university in the late 1960's. Yet he asks a question that never occurred to me. It is such an obvious question. "Why are there no sub-Saharan Africans in North African Islamic societies?" In contrast, there are millions of African descendants in the Western Hemisphere. Yet the Islamic slave trade went on for seven centuries before the Western slave trade developed. It still goes on.
The answer is obvious, once you ask the question: The survival rates were virtually nonexistent for sub-Saharan Africans who were kidnapped by Islamic slave traders. He makes this point, and it is a valid one: it was a lot better to be kidnapped and sent west by a slave trader than to be kidnapped and sent north.
If you have not heard this story before, watch this video. I assure you, you have not heard this story before.
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