Slavery Was Never Exclusive to African Americans
A good, short piece.
"Even so, this persisted illegally in the Ottoman Empire into the first half of the 20th century where, estimates suggest that at any one time, 20 per cent of Istanbul was made up of slaves. They didn't only own slaves for a far greater duration, but they also targeted white slaves."
"The New York Times published a report titled ‘Horrible Traffic in Circassian Women-Infanticide in Turkey’, stating that the overwhelming increase of slaves as a consequence of the war drove prices down and the temptation to possess a Circassian girl at such low prices allowed the ordinary Turk in the streets of Constantinople to own his very own white slave."
"We should stop pretending like whites haven't paid their dues and, in many cases, if it weren't for whites, slavery would still be a way of life in many nations that like to point the finger. We can't go a single day without some liberal harping about the crimes of American imperialism as if conquest didn't exist before them."
http://mantalk.mobi/Slavery-Was-Never-Exclusive-to-African-Americans
"Even so, this persisted illegally in the Ottoman Empire into the first half of the 20th century where, estimates suggest that at any one time, 20 per cent of Istanbul was made up of slaves. They didn't only own slaves for a far greater duration, but they also targeted white slaves."
"The New York Times published a report titled ‘Horrible Traffic in Circassian Women-Infanticide in Turkey’, stating that the overwhelming increase of slaves as a consequence of the war drove prices down and the temptation to possess a Circassian girl at such low prices allowed the ordinary Turk in the streets of Constantinople to own his very own white slave."
"We should stop pretending like whites haven't paid their dues and, in many cases, if it weren't for whites, slavery would still be a way of life in many nations that like to point the finger. We can't go a single day without some liberal harping about the crimes of American imperialism as if conquest didn't exist before them."
http://mantalk.mobi/Slavery-Was-Never-Exclusive-to-African-Americans