Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

It's the fact that they had different language, values and traditions. That's a simple historical fact and not an opinion Western Civilization saw the underdeveloped civilizations and thought "they don't have our same values so they're basically animals" and this slavery was born

Southern Europeans are of a different shade in skin tone to Northern Europeans.

Or, for that matter, the same skin color as the northern Caucasus region slaves. But there’s also that little matter of the Arabic word for black Africans being the same word they use for “slave”. Language always tells.

It wasn't skin color that made them easy prey, but the capturing of them by their own people to make make a buck from wealthy slave shoppers

.... It happened at the same time as rich West Africans were selling their fellow men to White slave traders. But not as many as to Arab traders. And only a few percent of the slaves went to North America.