Slavery is indefensible: that said, most of it has been perpetrated by people of color! Don't believe it? Arabs slaved East Africa for 7 centuries before the west even got started. Take Hamed bin Muhammad--sultan of Zanzibar, slaver. He was called Tippu Tibb, after the sound of his musket's detonation. He and his four generals, Clean Sweeper, Bitter as Bile, the Destroyer, and Angel of Death enslaved some 400,000 slaves. Now get this--only one or two out of ten made it back to the Middle East. Not counting those killed in war, two or three would die naturally in route back to Mombasa from the African interior, a couple maybe "while trying to escape" plus at least one from complications of resisting castration--all were made eunuchs--in Mombasa, and the last one dying either pulling into