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Yesterday they showed a program about the one million white slaves (of which three thousand were from Scandinavia) that were bought and sold in north Africa.

One of the stories was about a Danish boy who ended up being a slave for 12 years, and the other was about a group of Norwegian sailors that ended up on the slave market, and how the Danish state went into frantic negotiations with the owners to get them back. Most of the white slaves died, either from the hard labour, from being whipped to death or simply because they got deliberately killed by their owners, so the Danish state knew they couldn’t wait forever.

Three years later they finally managed to pay for the sailors, and they all returned home safely. :)


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16th August 2010
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6 years ago #9763576        
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How about the irish slaves, african slaves were more expensive than irish slaves? Why european in america hate irish so much?image


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4 years ago #9825323        
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Slavery isn't over yet, and I cannot foresee a time where it won't be - sadly, nowadays it's masked in different forms. Everything from little girls/boys to adult women in human traffficking rings, boys brainvashed to become soldiers in various wars, even beggars in large cities aren't always working for themselves, but for someone else.


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12 years ago #8304261        
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@Quartin: And should we kill everyone who buys slaves too? How about those people who make it impossible for slavers to feed their families in any way other than trading slaves? I'd think that responsibility lies with anyone wealthy enough who decides not to encourage any more humane businesses anywhere in the third world, as well as anyone who takes for themselves resources that could be used to keep any part of the third world in food, water and education. Should we kill them too? I'm sure if we kill enough people someone will get the hint and work to make the world better.

6 years ago #9784759        
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Should we really be qualifying it? Like does it being "white" slavery make it any different from any other kind, or colour, rather?

Also, I get how white folks, especially American white folks feel very guilty about having enslaved large parts of the world for a longer or shorter time, but does that really make it ok to pretend that slavery 'wasn't all that bad really'?


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7 years ago #9676128        
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im sure everyone in these comments are being respectful and civil and theres no arguments whatsoever /s

8 years ago #9481299        
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Norway looks like he could crush that guy with his fists

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6 years ago #9762830        
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Hmm... nowadays Middle east is not united by pair of Caliphates... its divided... Is it Crusade time?

7 years ago #9553285        
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Yup, they also took people from Iceland. At the time, it was a big blow to our population. Only a few were bought back (by the Danes, because we belonged to the Danes back then, but the Danish king would only buy back those who had remained Christians, not the kids or adults who'd been made to convert).

8 years ago #9500194        
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And up until now, abuse like that, especially in Saudi Arabia, still goes on. <:'C


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9 years ago #9296818        
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@bubba please remember they attacked so much more than Vestmannaey. We call it the Turk-abductions (tyrkjaránið) even though the Turks had nothing to do with it.
For those interested this explains it pretty well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions

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