More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States ...
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{{quotation|The African so-called slave "trade" was a demand-driven market out of Europe and America, not a supply-driven market out of Africa. We did not seek to sell captives to the Whites as an original act.<ref>[http://www.africawithin.com/maafa/did_we_sell.htm Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery?]</ref> }}
{{quotation|The African so-called slave "trade" was a demand-driven market out of Europe and America, not a supply-driven market out of Africa. We did not seek to sell captives to the Whites as an original act.<ref>[http://www.africawithin.com/maafa/did_we_sell.htm Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery?]</ref> }}
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Also, economist [[Thomas Sowell]] writes: "More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."<ref> [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder022020.php3 Black History Month: Why Don't They Teach About the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade in Africa?] By Larry Elder - Published Feb. 20, 2020</ref>