Best kenya history books according to redditors

Wikipedia article sources this: https://www.amazon.com/Islams-Black-Slaves-Other-Diaspora/dp/0374527970/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333217684&sr=1-1-fkmr0

But this might be in regards to white slaves being castrated.

Wait a minute, are you aware of this:

> In the over 13 centuries of the Arab slave trade in Africa unknown number of Africans were enslaved and shipped to the Middle East. It is claimed that a vast majority of the male black slaves, estimated at around 80%, were castrated. European slaves were also castrated, often by non-Muslims in order to bypass Islamic prohibitions. European "castration centers" existed in Central Europe and other areas beyond Islamic rule, from which eunuchs were then imported.

Castrated slaves were sold to the Arabs, but they weren't the ones castrating them - because it isn't allowed in the religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch#Coptic_involvement

So yes, while they did create a "demand" for it (although I would argue it wasn't exclusive to them, remember large Christian Arab population back in the day), it is the same argument as the Europeans creating a "demand" for the slaves to create their own domestic slave market. Keep in mind, the American domestic slave market meant that slaves were born into slavery and had basically little hope of escape - while in the Arab slave trade, those born to Muslim parents could not be slaves and manumission was encouraged (similar to the Jewish concept where Jews were not to take other Hebrews as slaves). So basically they "allowed" them to breed, only to then break apart families and have babies born into slavery for all of their lives. I'm still not convinced one is worse than the other - it is like comparing an aborted baby to the life of misery for the born child.

https://www.amazon.com/Islams-Black-Slaves-Other-Diaspora/dp/0374527970/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333217684&sr=1-1-fkmr0

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/6c8ynn/the_evil_jews_and_muslims_engaged_in_a_mass_slave/

Also, slavery isn't even over in Europe and America:https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/region/europe/. Lowest, yes - but not eliminated.

The Europeans only nominally ended slavery, they continued colonization and indentured servitude (Indians/Chinese in the Americas/Africa).

I guess history is written by the victors. Try not losing so much.

As for your book club, I was thinking books like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Terrorism-Islam-Peter-Hammond/dp/1612154980

https://www.amazon.com/Islams-Black-Slaves-Other-Diaspora/dp/0374527970

https://www.amazon.com/Race-Slavery-Middle-East-Historical/dp/0195053265

https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Slaves-Muslim-Masters-Mediterranean/dp/1403945519

https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Arab-World-Murray-Gordon/dp/1561310239

https://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Jihad-Conversion-Imperialism-Slavery/dp/1440118469

But whatever floats your boat.

>While the gender ratio of slaves imported to the West was 2-1 male to female, the exact opposite was true in the Islamic world. This high ratio of household female slaves and a tradition of polygamy and concubinage, led to the use of blacks as sex objects

>Males slaves were frequently turned into eunuchs--so obviously they had no offspring. Many of the rest were used as soldiers, with resulting low survival rates.
Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora


>Book 017, Number 4175: 'A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) cut off the hand of a thief for a quarter of a dinar rid upwards. Theft


http://www.bestgore.com/torture/thief-hands-cut-off-foot-amputated-video/


>Saudi officials continue to require women to obtain permission from male guardians to conduct their most basic affairs, like traveling or receiving medical care, despite government assertions that no such requirements exist....The government made its assertions most recently in June 2009, to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva....Saudi doctors have confirmed that Health Ministry regulations still require a woman to obtain permission from her male guardian to undergo elective surgery. In late June, Saudi border guards at the Bahrain crossing refused to allow the renowned women's rights activist Wajeha al-Huwaider to leave the country because she did not have her guardian's permission, al-Huwaider told Human Rights Watch.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia