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[[Image:Geromeslavemarket.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Jean-Léon Gérôme's ''The Slave Market'' painting portrays the ugly reality of sex slavery in the Middle East]]The '''Arab slave trade''' is the longest yet least discussed of the two major slave trades. It began in seventh century as Arabs and other Asians poured into northern and eastern Africa under the banner of Islam. The Arab trade of Blacks in Southeast Africa predates the European transatlantic slave trade by 700 years, <ref>[http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/06/02/10-facts-about-the-arab-enslavement-of-black-people-not-taught-in-schools/4/#]</ref><ref>[https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/white-slaves-barbary-002171 The White Slaves of Barbary]</ref> and in modern times slavery persists in the Islamic world primarily with sex slavery.

[[Image:Geromeslavemarket.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Jean-Léon Gérôme's ''The Slave Market'' painting portrays the ugly reality of sex slavery in the Middle East]]The '''Arab slave trade''' is the longest yet least discussed of the two major slave trades. It began in seventh century as Arabs and other Asians poured into northern and eastern Africa under the banner of Islam. The Arab trade of Blacks in Southeast Africa predates the European transatlantic slave trade by 700 years, <ref>[http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/06/02/10-facts-about-the-arab-enslavement-of-black-people-not-taught-in-schools/4/#]</ref><ref>[https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/white-slaves-barbary-002171 The White Slaves of Barbary]</ref> and in modern times slavery persists in the Islamic world primarily with sex slavery. Unlike the Slavery in the Americas, African slaves traded by the Arabs were castrated and  could not reproduce. <ref>https://jcpa.org/article/the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-lifting-the-taboo/</ref>

Islamic raiders have a fondness for women with very light hair, eyes, and skin tone.<ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/islams_fairhaired_women_problem.html Islam's 'Fair-Haired Women' Problem]</ref><ref>[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6630/sexual-slavery-islam Sexual Slavery: "Nothing to do with Islam"?]</ref>

Islamic raiders have a fondness for women with very light hair, eyes, and skin tone.<ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/islams_fairhaired_women_problem.html Islam's 'Fair-Haired Women' Problem]</ref><ref>[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6630/sexual-slavery-islam Sexual Slavery: "Nothing to do with Islam"?]</ref>