Barry Welsh

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The traffic in slaves between the two continents did not begin in earnest until the seventh or eighth century AD and when it did the traffic was in the opposite direction to that which most people would suppose. Rather than African slaves being brought to Europe, it was white Europeans who were taken to Africa to be sold in slave markets.
The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam
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