The Real History of Slavery

The Real History of Slavery begins with examples of misinformation. Schools often teach children that the United States stands alone in its wickedness...

Of the 12.5 million slaves transported to the Americas during the Transatlantic slave trade, half went to Brazil. Only 472,372 - around 4 percent - arrived in what is now the United States. While it is fashionable to say that whites “captured,” “stole,” or “kidnapped” black slaves, slave traders bought them from Africans...

Slavery is as old as human history. The Real History of Slavery notes that ancient societies such as Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome practiced it. Plato and Aristotle defended slavery as a natural institution. The Code of Hammurabi defined slaves as property...

The word slave derives from Slav because Muslim raiders - both Turks and Arabs - so frequently captured and sold Eastern Europeans between the 8th and 11th centuries...

This system of kidnapping, conversion, and enslavement continued for more than 300 years...

Arabs treated African slaves with extreme cruelty...

The Real History of Slavery notes that American Indians practiced a form of slavery in the New World that was at least as brutal as Muslim slavery and often involved cannibalism...

Between 1620 and 1776, up to 70 percent of British immigrants to the United States arrived as indentured servants - a number that probably surpasses the population of black slaves brought to the colonies...