Well I know this is completely off-topic now, but since Alan and tim in vermont started it, anyone who’se interested in the Arabs and the slave-trade should look up David Livingstone (as in “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”) and the Nyangwe massacre he witnessed in 1871, when Arab slave-traders opened fire on the marketplace of a town in what is the present-day D.R. of Congo. Hundreds were killed (Wikipedia says 600).
My Encyclopaedia Brit 13th ed. says:
“…a party of arab slavers, without warning or provocation, assembled one day when the market was busiest and commenced shooting the women, hundreds being killed or drowned in trying to escape. Livingstone had ‘the impression that he was in hell’, but was helpless…”
Reports of this event were a big deal when they made their way back to London. Note that this took place after the American Civil war.
Well I know this is completely off-topic now, but since Alan and tim in vermont started it, anyone who’se interested in the Arabs and the slave-trade should look up David Livingstone (as in “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”) and the Nyangwe massacre he witnessed in 1871, when Arab slave-traders opened fire on the marketplace of a town in what is the present-day D.R. of Congo. Hundreds were killed (Wikipedia says 600).
My Encyclopaedia Brit 13th ed. says:
“…a party of arab slavers, without warning or provocation, assembled one day when the market was busiest and commenced shooting the women, hundreds being killed or drowned in trying to escape. Livingstone had ‘the impression that he was in hell’, but was helpless…”
Reports of this event were a big deal when they made their way back to London. Note that this took place after the American Civil war.