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Blond, tall, with honey-colored eyes: Jewish Ownership of Slavic Slaves in the Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of Hebrew written sources, dozens of official decrees, judicial records indicate that slave holding of females of Slavic origin in Jewish households in the Ottoman Empire
was widespread from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
FULL TEXT HERE: artsrn.ualberta.ca/amcdouga/Hist3…
In 1996, the Moscow publishing house published work famous Swiss Orientalist Adam Metz "Muslim Renaissance". In this book, few pages are quite remarkable information about the history of the slave trade in medieval Europe.
All further text — quotes from the book of Adam Metz.
In Europe, the slave trade was almost entirely Jewish. Goods come mainly from
East Slavic lands. Bishop Agobard Lyons (IX century AD.) Mentions in his book
De insolentia Iudaeorum number of cases where Jews kidnapped Christian Franks children and sold them to the Spanish Muslims.
Muslim Spain imported an enormous number of slaves, as well as serving as a staging point for Muslim and Jewish merchants to market slaves to the rest of the Islamic world. During the reign of Abd-ar-Rahman III (912-961), there were at first 3,750, then 6,087, and finally 13,750
Slavic slaves, at Córdoba, capital of the Umayyad Caliphate. Ibn Hawqal, Ibrahim al-Qarawi, and Bishop Liutprand of Cremona note that the Jewish Merchants of Verdun specialized in castrating slaves, to be sold as eunuchs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_i…
In the X century, Prague was the center of the slave trade. St. Adalbert resigned from in 989 bishop of Prague because was not able to buy all the Christians purchased by a Jewish merchant [Caro, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, I, str.191].
Jewish merchants brought Slavic slaves in Muslim countries. Women and girls were intended concubines in harems, and a young man, after castration, to the eunuchs. According to the laws of Islam and Muslims is forbidden castration provided this work to Jewish doctors.
Medieval Arab historian al-Muqaddasi writes that the main supplier of white eunuchs in Muslim harems were "Slavs, they are castrated, and then transported to Egypt."Slavs brought to the Spanish cities,populated by Jews & enjoyed a special reputation.[Dozy,Gesch.der Mauren, 2,p.38
As for the operation itself medieval Arab historian Ibn al-Athir writes:
note text is a bad translation from the German
Jewish Merchants
Records of long-distance Jewish slave merchants date at least as far back as 492. By the turn of the 6th to the 7th century, Jews had become the chief slave traders in Italy, and were active in Gaelic territories. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_i…
MUSLIM AND JEWISH SLAVE TRADE AND CASTRATION OF THE SLAVS IN THE MIDDLE AGES bitchute.com/video/urYy2P0h…
In the dark ages the commerce of western Europe was largely in his [the Jew's] hands, in particular the slave trade, and in Carolingian cartularies Jews and merchants are used as almost interchangeable terms.
One type of business carried on in the early Middle Ages by the Jews of Europe, namely the slave trade, requires a special word of explanation. The Jews were among the most important slave-dealers.
European slaves in the slave market of the Ottoman Empire bitchute.com/video/cAL0L6L9…
The Ottoman penetration into Europe in the 1350s and their capture of Constantinople later in 1453 opened new floodgates for slave-trade from the European front.
Sources suggest that in the few years between 1436-1442, some 500,000 people were seized in the Balkans. Many of the captives died in forced marches towards Anatolia (Turkey).
ISLAM’S EASTERN EUROPEAN SLAVE TRADE BY MUSLIM TURKS (OTTOMAN) AND ARABS bitchute.com/video/laEbpHXF…
Based on eyewitness written accounts. In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. The novel is based on two individual eyewitness written accounts bitchute.com/video/59Fe1WVZ…
North African Barbary Slave Trade
Ohio State University history Professor Robert Davis describes the White Slave Trade as minimized by most modern historians in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800
BARBARY SLAVE TRADE - MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS ENSLAVED IN NORTH AFRICA bitchute.com/video/HHBNqnvi…
In 1544, the island of Ischia off Naples was ransacked, taking 4,000 inhabitants prisoners, while some 9,000 inhabitants of Lipari Island off the north coast of Sicily were enslaved.870 Turgut Reis, a Turkish pirate chief, ransacked the coastal settlements of Granada (Spain)
Paul Baepler’s White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives lists a collection of essays by nine American captives held in North Africa.
ATLANTIC JIHAD The Untold Story of White Slavery
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS - BARBARY PIRATES, MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE AND THOMAS JEFFERSON bitchute.com/video/HMopLDjz…
These statements come from an Introduction by the well-known
physician Ibn Botlan to the art of making good purchases of slaves. This little book combines with theory a good deal of ancient practical experiences in the traffic of slaves.
The well-known Swiss orientalist Adam Metz in the book "The Muslim Renaissance" (Adam Mets "Die Renaissance Des Islams", Heidelberg, 1922) about the history of the slave trade in medieval Europe following:
The Renaissance of Islam - Slavery scribd.com/document/37199…
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