The Slave Trade You've Never Heard Of | Arab Slave Trade

Dr. Marcus Garvey Jr., an African academic and historian, has been a critical voice in exposing the often-overlooked Arab Muslim slave trade, highlighting its devastating impact on African and Caucasian peoples. Unlike the mainstream focus on the transatlantic slave trade, Dr. Garvey Jr. has courageously shed light on the 1,400-year-long Islamic slave trade, which predated and directly influenced the enslavement of Africans in the Americas. His research dismantles the false narrative that slavery was purely a European construct, instead demonstrating that Arab Muslim traders played a central role in the capture and sale of millions of Africans, many of whom were later sold to European slave merchants. His work is particularly important because, as an African scholar, he challenges the selective outrage of modern academia, which often ignores Islamic slavery while vilifying Western nations. By documenting the systemic castration, sexual exploitation, and extreme mortality rates suffered by African slaves under Islamic rule, Dr. Garvey Jr. forces a long-overdue reckoning with history. His scholarship underscores that without the Arab Muslim slave trade, slavery in the Americas may never have been possible, as it was the Muslim traders who established the supply chains and brutal practices that Europeans later exploited. His work is vital in ensuring that all aspects of history are acknowledged, and that the suffering of millions under Islamic slavery is not erased to protect political narratives.