The Arab slave trade was brutal, but it didn’t create the modern world. The Atlantic one did.
The Arab slave trade was brutal, but it didn’t create the modern world.
The Atlantic one did.
It wasn’t just worse in scale.
It was worse in structure. In ideology. In permanence.
Only one system turned human life into finance.
Only one system built an empire of plantations, insurances, shipping companies, and racial science.
Only one system sold freedom while profiting from chains, and still calls itself a beacon of morality.
Islam didn’t invent slavery. Neither did Europe.
But only one taught the world to justify it with skin color.
To pass it down by bloodline.
To write laws, build banks, and found republics on it.
As for abolition?
Britain and the U.S. didn’t abolish slavery out of principle.
They abolished it out of calculation.
Only after centuries of profit.
Only after rebellion made the system unsustainable.
And even then, they replaced it with colonialism, segregation, debt peonage, and mass incarceration.
You do not get to rape the world, abolish your whip, then demand applause.
You ended the crime only after you became too rich to need it.
And if your only moral pride is that your empire stopped devouring bodies, after it was full, then you’ve proven the point.
This isn’t about conscience.
It’s about control.
And the fear of what happens when memory returns.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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