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{{quotation|In evaluating the African slave trade, there was another "[[Middle Passage]]" often neglected by most scholars—the [[Arab slave trade]]. It is often forgotten that the Arab slave trade in [[East Africa]] and the slave trade from [[North Africa]] into Inner West Africa was protracted and ruthless. Sometimes the [[Arabs]] from the north who were [[Moslem]] enslaved [[Africans]] in the south who were also Moslems, thereby violating one of the most basic customs of their faith—that no Moslem should enslave another Moslem.<ref>[http://www.africawithin.com/clarke/part30f10.htm The African Holocaust—The Slave Trade]</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> }}

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>

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