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A provocative examination of slavery’s overlooked global history — challenging modern narratives by tracing the practice across civilisations, cultures, and centuries, long before Western involvement.

If you haven’t noticed, history is being rewritten in real time.  This raises several questions: why, and who benefits from this rewriting? How is it that one particular race is being blamed for everything, while a protection racket seems to be enforced for others? 

Last year, I wrote an article on “The Crusades Reconsidered“. Raymond Ibrahim unpacks how the West has ‘sanitised’ Islam’s involvement through expansionist ideals and conquest of countless Christian nations. True genocide followed when they fought back.  His assertions are chilling. His research expansive, drawing on Islamic history in his sources. 

The pattern continues through Academia regarding the history of the Slave Trade. Again, ‘white man bad, brown man, not so much’. 

There shouldn’t be any argument about the horrors and evil of slavery.  

This article seeks to expose facts that you might not hear about.   

We see history being rewritten regularly.  

Take Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority. He wrote his dissertation and later, a book titled “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.” His work claimed the six million victim figure was heavily exaggerated in the Holocaust, and that Zionist leaders collaborated with the Nazi Regime. 

Closer to home, our former Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, accused Israel of lying about October 7th atrocities. But of course, now she is the victim!  

The American Slave Trade

What the left won’t admit, and will erase if allowed, is the whole story. I invite you to watch Matt Walsh’s documentary, “The Real History of Slavery“, here:

Basic facts matter, and Walsh reveals the obvious: two sides of the world, East and West, meet through exploration and trade. No phone lines, no CNN. No newspaper articles. And what do they find in common? Slavery.

Thousands of years of history reveal the obvious depravity of mankind. The conclusion is simple: you want stuff done; it’s a lot easier to get other people to do it for you for free.  This fact escapes modern thinking. 

Nowadays, the whole narrative relies on ‘White Guilt’. Slavery was white man’s creation and institution.  

By the mid-1800s, every white nation on Earth had abolished slavery.

Yet in Africa and Arabic countries, it persisted for another century and longer! In 2007, the African continent ‘outlawed’ slavery.

Saudi Arabia only did this when it succumbed to the pressure of Great Britain in 1962! They were told, ‘If you want us to help you get this oil out of the sand, you had better end slavery!’

The massive difference is that the British Empire abolished it in 1833 (coming into effect in 1834).

While the 1807 Slave Trade Act abolished the trade in the British Empire, full emancipation occurred later.  Slavery was abolished at different times globally. The USA passed the 13th Amendment and officially abolished slavery on December 6th, 1865, after the bloody Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863. His stand cost him his life. 

The key aspect about the Western slave trade was that it was shorter and usually less brutal than its Arabic counterpart.

Arab slavers were notoriously brutal. Castration was routine, with 7-9 out of 10 men dying. Walsh asserts that the only reason they stopped was the insistence of European nations.  

Only 1-2% of Americans ever owned slaves. One slave owner was William Ellison, a black man freed by his master years before. He was one of the largest slave owners. A Creole renowned for brutality.  

When facts actually come to light, the wholesale Reparations argument goes bust quickly.   

Walsh raises the issue of American Indians who routinely enslaved other tribes and settlers, and that their peaceful image is a fallacy. They were known for brutality and savagery. Including cannibalism.  

Walsh begins his examination on this subject with the country of Dahomey, in Central West Africa. The kingdom’s whole wealth system was built on the misery of slavery. Responsible for butchering tens of thousands of captives. Details too gruesome to share here. 

Who was most responsible for enslaving Africans? Other Africans.  

History recorded on tablets in 3300 BC

Slavery was never a ‘White’ invention. Ancient Babylonian tablets record slavery in 3300BC. (I recall it being mentioned in Exodus?) So common was slavery in ancient Greece that Plato simply assumed there would be non-Greek slaves in the ‘ideal city’. 

Aristotle concurred. Sparta’s population was 7-1 ratio, slave to citizen. Late stages of the Roman Empire held 2-3 million slaves.  

Islamic piracy raided great swathes of Europe, Ireland and even Iceland.  

From 1500-1800, roughly 1.5 million Christians were taken into slavery.  The Northern Mediterranean shores suffered raids as an annual event. Thousands ended their days as Galley slaves, rowing endlessly while shackled to rowing benches, living in their own filth until they died or were freed by an enemy ship. Slavic countries gained their name by the slave raids they endured. 

Arabs ran a huge slave trade to the Caribbean and Brazil.  Often captured in the Congo, salves were marched to markets in Zanzibar. It’s estimated that some 17 million souls were trafficked over 300 years until 1909.  

Let me take you to Ali Tabrizi and “The Facts on Islamic Slave Trade You Were Never Taught in School.” 

Tabrizi takes this conversation and adds the truth that is certainly hidden in plain sight. The modern-day slavery being conducted by Muslims across Africa.  

Left-wing ‘progressives’ won’t want to entertain the possibility that the religion of peace could have never truly changed their ways; and why should they change when their holy books sanction, normalise and encourage these practices since their prophet’s days!  

Thousands of migrants heading for Europe are waylaid and captured by slave traders in 2026. Stories of beatings, starvation, torture and death. Bought and penned up until they escape, are sold or die.  

Liam Bartlett on 7 Network’s Spotlight program exposed what could only be described as modern-day slavery by Chinese influence in Africa as we pursue our ‘Green Dream’ renewable energy boom. Miners dig for rare earth minerals, such as cobalt, in unbelievably dangerous and toxic conditions to satiate our relentless need for components to power all things electrical.

It’s estimated that 40,00 children are living and are being worked to death for their modern-day owners, China.  Their ‘wage’ is a pittance due to their age.  

Did you know that the Australian Government buys all our cobalt from China? It’s known as Blood Cobalt, due to the loss of life in its mining. This stuff leaves the Congo and goes to China for processing and is then purchased by Australia, while we have our own high-quality supplies in the ground outside Broken Hill!  

It all goes into the Green Scam of wind turbines, solar panels and electric batteries, which we buy from China. Shame on us! Our farmers are threatened, our forests and arable lands bulldozed, wildlife killed without remorse.  

And Australia is complicit in modern-day slavery!  

Remember this, the next time the Honourable Chris Bowen smiles at you. 

But let’s be quiet about it! No more Solar Panels for you, Australia, should you wish to raise China’s abuses with the Human Rights Commission or the UN.  

There truly is nothing new under the sun. Man’s inhumanity to man continues in this sinful world.  

The very countries that set humanity free from this abhorrent practice hundreds of years ago are now running interference for the ones who have remained recalcitrant and unrepentant for some 1400 years! 

The old saying is that “History is written by the victors.”

Now it’s being rewritten by progressive activists and liars.

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