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Africa's "Bigger Slave Problem" - More pressing than Democrats' quest for reparations


Africa’s “Bigger Slave Problem - More pressing than Democrats’ quest for reparations
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Last year Joe Biden said African Americans who don’t support him “ain’t black,” but this year the Delaware Democrat is open to reparations for slavery, America’s “original sin,” according to the composite character president David Garrow described in
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. A neglected historical account provides enlightenment on slavery’s true origins and its most enduring practitioners.
In 1856, British Army officer John Hanning Speke set out to find the source of the Nile. Speke’s massive
Discovery of the Source of the Nile documents the African societies he found, and the widespread practice of slavery.  “To catch slaves is the first thought of every chief in the interior,” Speke wrote, “Hence fights and slavery impoverish the land.” ....

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City of splendor and filth: A review of The Accursed Tower – Catholic World Report


Detail from a painting by Dominique Papety (1815–49) of the Hospitalier Maréchal defending the walls at the Siege of Acre, 1291. (Wikipedia)
In 1108 Tughtegin, the Turkic atabeg of Damascus, offered to trade Gervase of Bezoches, the captured crusader Prince of Galilee, for the city of Acre (and two smaller possessions). Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, refused. Such was the value of the city which had quickly become the main point of arrival for soldiers and pilgrims from Europe. So Tughtegin used Gervase’s scalp as an Islamic military banner and his skull for a goblet. Even unredeemed captives had value.
Acre was strategically located on the Levantine coast. It possessed a good harbor for shipping and was of significant value as a port to Genoese, Venetian, and Pisan merchants. Craftsman, artists, and laborers of all kinds found work in the bustling city. It was protected by the sea and a network of walls and ditches around the landward side of the city and the adjacent ....

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