AFRICANS ENSLAVED AFRICANS, they sold their brothers, sisters and children most of whom were Muslims to white Christian imperialists of Europe.

 Written by Esa Ethridge 

AFRICANS ENSLAVED AFRICANS, they sold their brothers, sisters and children most of whom were Muslims to white Christian imperialists of Europe.

Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived. However, their demand for slave labour was so great that traders and their agents searched far inland, devastating the region. Powerful African leaders fuelled the practice by exchanging enslaved people for goods such as alcohol, beads and cloth.

In the name of Jesus Christ over 15 million black men, women and children were brutalized in the most horrible ways in the plantations of Americas and the Caribbean.  

 For over 200 years, powerful kings all over Africa at the request of Christians in Europe captured and sold Muslim slaves to Portuguese, French and British merchants. The slaves were usually men, women and children from rival tribes — gagged and jammed into boats bound for Brazil, Haiti and the United States  During the horrific transatlantic passage black men and women were packed like pigs eating their own filth below deck, while beautiful black women were gang raped repeatedly above deck in the name of Christianity. Over 2 million Africans died during this terrible journey.  

Yes, according to Dr. Carole Boyce Davies a black historian, both Arabians and Persians practiced slavery. Slavery existed during the time of Moses and the black Hebrews in Egypt. Don't forget that Joseph was sold by his black brothers into slavery.  

However, in Islam only, the enslaved were generally afforded basic human rights, rights given to them by Qur'anic injunction and often gained their freedom to become nobles and rulers.  

 JAMAL AL-DIN YAQUT (ca 1200),   MALOK SAWAR (1394 – 1403), and  MALIK AMBAR (1550 – ?) are just a few Ethiopian slaves who rose to the ranks through Islam to become rulers of Kingdoms in India; other great leaders, and wise men who were once slaves that shaped today’s world history. 

Their existence should reinforce the fact that more research needs to be done so that we have irrefutable proof of what we already knew; that the African man and woman who were once slaves brought the light of civilization to the world.