The Forgotten Slave Trade

The White European Slaves of Islam

By: Simon Webb

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade. A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa, where they were sold. This is the forgotten slave trade, one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world.

Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean. Castration, used very occasionally against black slaves taken across the Atlantic, was routinely carried out on an industrial scale on European boys who were exported to Africa and the Middle East. Most people are aware that the English city of Bristol was a major center for the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, but hardly anyone knows that 1,000 years earlier it had been an important staging-post for the transfer of English slaves to Africa.

This book will forever change how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken.

©2020 Simon Webb (P)2022 Tantor

Accurate and detailed.

Very good reading. Information is accurate and detailed. This book is similar to Christian slaves, Muslim Masters, by Robert C Davis. I strongly suggest the podcast or the book or preferably both it will be worth your time.

Excellent!

The book is aptly titled for those that have not taken the time to study history so they understand that slavery was a human problem that has plagued our species far before the dawn of civilization. This book highlights the fact that European whites were enslaved in the same way black Africans were. It was white Europeans, most notably Brits and Americans that put the nail in the coffin of slavery. This book is an excellent reminder of that fact, and the story told is thought provoking, painful, and healing. It provides an excellent path forward from race shaming.

The big picture of slavery.

Fascinating book, slavery is not a dividing issue in our culture but a common ground. All people have known slavery through conquest or kidnapping at some point in history. The current rhetoric regarding slavery as only the Transatlantic trade is wholly wrong. Intententional manipulation by so called academians. To be honest about the role of slavery since the dawn of time, you have to zoom out and see the bigger picture.

Helpful if interested in reality

I appreciate this book. It covers a popular contemporary topic in an unpopular way: with historical data & facts.
Before someone has a strong opinion on a topic, it’s probably good for them to understand the history of it. Before ‘going to war,’ on behalf of some high minded social justice cause, it probably wouldn’t hurt to know the facts & data around that cause.

Filling in blanks

There are large kniwledge gaps in the general public in terms of slavery, other than the transatlantic shipments of slaves from Africa. This book provides details on some of those gaps.

history of slavery in western Europe and med

this is a brief overview of slavery in western Europe and mederteran area. it covers the existence of such slavery and who practiced it. it does not cover Asian, African, or either south or nothing America. but it covers facts often forgotten or omitted when discussing slavery.

This should be required reading...for all ages

So many dates and details it floods the mind and can change your view on "history".