Well, there's this:
"COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.
Robert Davis
In a new book, Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.
Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said. Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries."
"The origins of African slavery in the New World cannot be understood without some knowledge of the millennium of warfare between Christians and Muslims that took place in the Mediterranean and Atlantic and the piracy and kidnapping that went along with it.[1] In 1627 pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa raided distant Iceland and enslaved nearly four hundred astonished residents. In 1617 Muslim pirates, having long enslaved Christians along the coasts of Spain, France, Italy, and even Ireland, captured 1,200 men and women in Portuguese Madeira. Down to the 1640s, there were many more English slaves in Muslim North Africa than African slaves under English control in the Caribbean. Indeed, a 1624 parliamentary proclamation estimated that the Barbary states held at least 1,500 English slaves, mostly sailors captured in the Mediterranean or Atlantic.["
2007-12-24 03:39:15
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answered by johnslat 7
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Trick question. Many people point out Carthage, Egypt, and various "Ancient African Civilations" as black nations with salves. The problem is Carthage and Egypt weren't African or "black" nations.
Early Egypt was black and semitic, and their slaves were either semitic and black. Middle Egypt was run by Hyksos (Asian/Indian) and Nubian kings and enslaved semitics, black, and maybe a few Greco-Asian peoples. Late Egypt was Greco-Semitic, Cleopatra, was Greek, her lineage comes from Ptolmey Philopater a general of Alexander the Great who was granted/claimed Egypt, Sudan, and Libya as his own, his lineage ended with the infamous Cleopatra and Marc Antony.
Carthage, was a Phonecian port/city. Carthage means "new city" and they were the same semites that the Jews and Arabs are, as well as a Greco-Asian lineage that the Turks and Greeks have. They enslaved Celts, Arabs, and Africans, moreso per capita than any nation on earth.
Zimbabwe, Mali, Kongo, and Kush were the only African "black" nations and they mostly enslaved captured soldiers, people and poor members of their own tribes or people. The biggest reason was they had little need for huge swarms of slaves, their land was very fertile, their wars were quick, their game was plentiful, and most of all, they could survive in central and southern Africa while Asian, Semitic, and European peoples couldn't. Much like the African slaves died of European diseases when they arrived or were transported, the slave masters and slave drivers of Europe, Middle East, and Asia would die of quicker and deadlier diseases that are native to southern and central Africa.
2007-12-24 05:51:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes black people own white people as slave around 5000 bc is the time when white skin color was just started to be seen in the world and black people hated the mutation of the skin color for some reason. The white skin has only Been around for 7500 years white people or original black Africans.
2016-06-12 05:48:23
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answered by Mike 1
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Yes. Back during the reign of the early Egyptian Pharoahs, the Nubians, a Black culture, did capture white people from surrounding areas and keep them as slaves. This had been going on between the peoples of that area for years. Of course, the Egyptians themselves perpetuated this practice. Also, during the colonial era slave trade, it was the Black tribes on the west coast of Africa who maintained a busy economy by enslaving Blacks from interior tribes and selling them first to the various Arab peoples. The trade was made more lucrative for these tribes when Europeans appeared on the scene, and created a steady market for the west coast tribes as they purchased enormous quantities of slaves from them. In essence, the slave trade was created by the various Black coastal Kings to create revenue for their tribes. Though not considered to be "politically correct", this is very common knowledge among Africans today, which is one source of my information. Check out the Crusades also. Another thought, the largest slaveholder in Louisiana during the early days of the Civil War was black.
2007-12-24 03:47:18
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answered by Longhunter 2
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Yes, in ancient times, African nations were ones to be reckoned with (remember Hannibal? He got all the way to Switzerland). Sicilians, Italians, and the peoples of Spain for example are darker-skinned because of African invaders. Also, we cannot forget that Egypt enslaved many (not-yet-called) Europeans and Asians for hundreds of years.
2007-12-24 04:47:19
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answered by devastey 1
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Yeah they did. They ran the complete earth at one time. It's simply anybody else' flip however whites are doing an overly deficient task of it as in so much matters they do, you already know? They are inflicting plenty of disorders international to a factor in which we have now foreigners committing severe acts of terrorism in our nation killing and maming hundreds and hundreds of innocents.
2016-09-05 18:01:40
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answered by grant 1
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In addition to what has been mentioned by others, when the Islamic Moors (primarily black) conquered the Iberian peninsula (including part of Spain) they enslaved many peoples of that area who were primarily white.
In the ancient world slavery was quite common and in particular in Africa. Interestingly, slavery still continues in Africa with primarily Islamic fundamentalists enslaving others including those who are white.
You might also make a case that in Africa Islamic fundamentalists enslave women because of the way they treat them.
2007-12-24 07:11:20
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answered by Randy 7
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Yes, in Egypt sometime between 900AD & 1100
A Black slave by the name of Kafoor became the supreem ruler of Egypt, & made it an independent kingdom. At that time there was slaves in Egypt from different ethnicities, including white people.
2007-12-24 05:51:20
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answered by Investor 5
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Egypt was and is in Africa. The original rulers of Egypt were Ethiopian not European. Ethiopia controlled most of the region and Jesus people were Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel). Slavery is a European term and there was no such thing as slaves for life. It was more of a class thing then a you are black and will be my slave thing. They had a servant class of people who did not mix with the other classes of people. It was not based on race like the slavery here in America. God was not used as a basis to enslave and entire race of people.
2014-09-03 08:33:53
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answered by nita W 2
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Early in American colonial history, there were Africans who came to America as free men or were somehow freed. They could then use indentured servants, who were more practically slaves. These servant slaves generally came from western europe and were white.
This was rare, but it did happen.
2007-12-24 04:43:08
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answered by Andrew 2
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