Youtube links on ancient slavery

[David777]

Below are about 2 hours of Youtube videos on ancient slavery in the world from the first era of first Mesopotamian civilizations 7000 years ago, that I watched today and will recommend. It is only in this current telecom communication era that these evil stories about human nature are now being generally told and acknowledged.

They show slavery was prevalent across the ancient world as a vast commerce and there were a range of moral levels slaves were treated with but in the vast majority of cases slaves regardless, had little freedom or control of their lives. And in many cases, their treatment is utterly disgusting blemish on humankind with war, power, seksual perversions, and greed primary motivations.

The Evil of Civilization: The Ancient Institution of Slavery 3:42

Slavery - Ancient Greek Society 8:35

The Untold Story: Ancient Rome's Empire of Slavery 10:11

Introduction to the Slavic Slave Trade 20:00

Slavery in the Early Caliphate 16:01

Byzantine Female Slavery | Unspeakable Things Byzantines Did To Women Slaves 6:51
Byzantine Female Slavery | Unspeakable Things Byzantines Did To Women Slaves

The Diabolical History Of The Barbary Slave Trade 14:46
The Diabolical History Of The Barbary Slave Trade

When Europeans Were Slaves | History Of The Barbary Slave Trade 11:42
When Europeans Were Slaves | History Of The Barbary Slave Trade

Enslaved Icelander Describes Horror of Barbary Pirate Raid (1627) 18:37
Enslaved Icelander Describes Horror of Barbary Pirate Raid (1627) // Diary of Ólafur Egilsson

 

[David777]

More on links to Eurasian slavery most here in the USA have never heard of with following snippets. A key reason the Christian Crusades occurred and was also a factor in the spread of colonialism to control rampant barbarism.

Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe - Wikipedia

Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe were the slave raids, for over three centuries, conducted by the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde primarily in lands controlled by Russia and Poland-Lithuania as well as other territories, often under the sponsorship of the Ottoman Empire.

Their main purpose was the capture of humans and consequent enslavement, most of whom were exported to the Ottoman slave markets in Constantinople or elsewhere in the Middle East via the Black Sea slave trade. Genoese and Venetian merchants controlled the slave trade from Crimea to Western Europe. The raids were a drain on the human and economic resources of eastern Europe...

Among these unfortunates [Slavic slaves] there are many strong ones; if they [Tatars] have not castrated them yet, they cut off their ears and nostrils, burned cheeks and foreheads with the burning iron and forced them to work with their chains and shackles during the daylight, and sit in the prisons during the night; they are sustained by the meager food consisting of the dead animals’ meat, rotten, full of worms, which even a dog would not eat. The youngest women are kept for wanton pleasures...

The human losses during the raids in Eastern Europe were significant. According to partial statistics and fragmentary estimates, nearly 2 million Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles were taken into slavery by the Crimean Tatars from 1468 to 1694. In the first half of the 17th century alone, an estimated 150 to 200 thousand people were taken into slavery from the territory of the Moscow State. These figures do not take into account those who were killed during the attacks.

The largest captures of slaves occurred in the Dnieper, Podolia, Volhynia, and Galicia regions, with more than a million people taken from these lands between 1500 and 1644. During the second half of the 17th century, these regions saw numerous wars with Tatar participation, suggesting an extremely high number of captured yasyr during this period. In 1676, for example, 40 thousand people were taken away in Volhynia, Podolia, and Galicia.

Barbary slave trade - Wikipedia

The Barbary slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states. European slaves were captured by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, Ireland and the southwest of Britain, as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern Mediterranean...

The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers. An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth bombarded ships and the harbour defences of Algiers.

There was a continuing campaign by various European navies and the American navy to suppress the piracy against Europeans by the North African Barbary states. The specific aim of this expedition, however, was to free Christian slaves and to stop the practice of enslaving Europeans in to slavery in Algeria.

Sir, for your atrocities at Bona on defenceless Christians, and your unbecoming disregard of the demands I made yesterday in the name of the Prince Regent of England, the fleet under my orders has given you a signal chastisement, by the total destruction of your navy, storehouse, and arsenal, with half your batteries. As England does not war for the destruction of cities, I am unwilling to visit your personal cruelties upon the unoffending inhabitants of the country, and I therefore offer you the same terms of peace which I conveyed to you yesterday in my Sovereign's name. Without the acceptance of these terms, you can have no peace with England."

Circassian beauty - Wikipedia

From the Middle Ages until the 20th-century, Circassian women were a major target for sexual slavery in the harems of the Islamic Middle East. In the middle ages, the Black Sea slave traders bought slaves from a number of different ethnic groups in the Caucasus, such as Abkhazians, Mingrelians and Circassians.

During the early modern Crimean slave trade, the trade of Circassians from the Caucasus expanded and developed in to what was termed a luxury slave trade route, providing elite slaves to the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. The Crimean slave trade was one of the biggest suppliers of concubines (female sex slaves) to the Ottoman Imperial Harem, and virgin slave girls (normally arriving as children) were given to the Sultan from local statesmen, family members, grand dignitaries and provincial governors, and particularly from the Crimean Khan; the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III received one hundred Circassian virgin girl slaves as presents upon his accession to the throne.

When the Crimean slave trade was ended with the Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire in the 18th-century, the trade of Circassians was redirected from Crimea and went directly from the Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire, developing in to a separate slave trade which continued until the 20th-century.

 

[Murrmurr]

"It is only in this current telecom communication era that these evil stories about human nature are now being generally told and acknowledged."

Actually, stories of slavery are mentioned in the Bible, and in stories around Buddhism and Islam, and stories about gladiators and the Samurai....they've been told for a long time.

 

[David777]

True. All that sort of history is known to some of those college educated in world history and scholars. I should have qualified that as "generally told and acknowledged by ordinary people" since most citizens in the busy modern era have been little interested in or have been educated on even our own USA history. And that tends to skew how they view much of the world today, easily manipulated by others. Ever since the rise of civilizations 7 to 8 millennium ago there has been enormous suffering in the world perpetrated by a minority of evil people on the majority of simple humans. And as I've written earlier, that first arose with the earliest Mesopotamian civilizations and also occurred in most other distant lands.

 

[Murrmurr]

True. All that sort of history is known to some of those college educated in world history and scholars. I should have qualified that as "generally told and acknowledged by ordinary people" since most citizens in the busy modern era have been little interested in or have been educated on even our own USA history. And that tends to skew how they view much of the world today, easily manipulated by others. Ever since the rise of civilizations 7 to 8 millennium ago there has been enormous suffering in the world perpetrated by a minority of evil people on the majority of simple humans. And as I've written earlier, that first arose with the earliest Mesopotamian civilizations and also occurred in most other distant lands.

I often wonder if that is intentional, whether the reasons are altruistic or nefarious.

I still find it interesting that on the heels of the ratification of the Civil Rights Act, high school Social Studies class was replaced with Civics class, which replaced studies about global culture with the study of domestic government. I don't know if that was a nation-wide change or if it varied from state-to-state, but I suspect it originated with the Federal Dept of Education and effected all US schools.

And at some point, history class became US History instead of World History, and World History became an elective class that few kids signed up for. I disagree with letting kids choose what they want to learn ...until they're at the higher education level, working toward a degree in their chosen field. I think K-12 schools should cram in as much knowledge about the whole world's history as possible.

 

[David777]

It is because educators in control of what is taught don't want to offend people nor those in government that are critical of morals and ethics in other countries for political purposes while conveniently neglecting how the USA was often no different historically until the recent era. The USA has a consistent tract record of after strongly pushing controversial issues globally, then after societal changes in positions, immediately being critical of other nations that don't quickly follow.

A current example is our American drug laws over cannabis, or our gender and seksual laws. Driving such, impatient advocates for change realize our past can be used against us so prefer to act like we've always been so instead of being open and honest. In the past, those in control could get away with playing the manipulative game but now with global telecom with a vast reservoir of history available with mere keystrokes, none of that will ever be effective in the future. None of this is new. George Washington used slave labor and that was quickly buried never appearing in our earlier era grade school student books.

Religions have the same type of problems now since they cannot stop people from reading scholarly materials they preferred remained hidden, ignored. In the past they would quietly allow scholars to speculate on all manner of scripture and possible interpretations but filter what was ever presented to parishioners lest they become corrupted from their biased versions of the truth.

A reason I posted this thread is because ordinary people don't understand how disgusting much human history actually is globally nor how different the USA was with many controversies within lifetimes of we seniors, so are easily manipulated by those with agendas.