Setting the Record Straight: White Europeans Were Captured and Traded as Slaves for Centuries

Indeed they were. Only the ignorant or deceitful suggests that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the only case of slavery in the world, although it may have been among the biggest and most inhumane. Compare the 1 million western Europeans sold into slavery to the 12 million in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plus many millions more who died during the long voyage and brutal "seasoning camps".

And that doesn't count the additional 15-20 million slaves stolen from Africa to the Arab world across the trans-Sahara and trans-Indian Ocean slave trades.

Of all the forms of Man's inhumanity to Man, slavery is one of the most common in history. While it is true that almost all peoples have, at one time or another, been the victim of slavery, it has been especially a blight on Africans.