Should American schools teach the Islamic slave trade alongside the Atlantic trade? - Steeve Strange "Two slave trades. School teaches one. The bigger one ran longer, and is not dead yet. The numbers. The Slave Voyages database counts about 388,000 Africans shipped to the United States, of 12.5 million shipped across the Atlantic. The Islamic trade, across the Sahara, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean, took an estimated 17 million Africans from 650 to 1900, per historian Ralph Austen. Some estimates run to 25 million. It ran about 1,300 years, against the Atlantic's 340. It was crueler in one way they never mention: male slaves castrated in huge numbers, one reason 17 million left so few descendants. America ended slavery in 1865. Saudi Arabia waited until 1962. Mauritania was last on earth, 1981, and hereditary slavery is still practiced there. In 2014 ISIS enslaved Yazidi women, citing Islamic law. And it never actually ended. In 2017 CNN filmed open-air slave auctions in Libya, Black migrants sold for as little as 400 dollars a man. The UN's migration agency had reported it: migrants bought and sold in Sabha, held for ransom, forced to work. The African Union condemned it, the world cared for one news cycle, everyone moved on. Reports say it never stopped. Black people are being bought and sold in a Muslim country in 2026, and the lecturers have nothing to say. The boy in this photo was enslaved in Zanzibar in the late 1800s, chained to a log as punishment. Slavery is evil wherever it happened, and America's part is a stain. So why does one trade get a month of curriculum and the other gets silence? Because the liberals who run the schools and the media have a story to protect. It needs America as the villain, and Islam sold to your kids as a religion of peace. This trade destroys both. You cannot call it a religion of peace when its trade in human beings ran 1,300 years, took 17 million Africans, castrated the men, enslaved over a million Europeans, and is still selling Black people in Libya today. So they bury it. Slavery is their weapon against America, never their standard. If it were, Libya would lead the news tonight." -Steeve Strange