Desert Fox
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I agree with most of your comments except historically Muslims being the biggest enslavers, Muslims did participate in the slave trade but not on the scale of Europeans. Also let us not forget that Africans were also often sold into slavery by other Africans.
It is said that as many black Africans were enslaved by Arab Muslims as were by Europeans:
"It's thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern (Islamic) slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.
It's ironic that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern (Islamic) trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn't lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination."
BBC - Religions - Islam: Slavery in Islam
"What these records show is that the modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. For moralists, the most important aspect of that trade should be that Muslims were selling goods to the African kingdoms and the African kingdoms were paying with their own people.
Then the Muslim trade of African slaves declined rapidly when Arab domination was reduced by the emerging European powers. (Note: Arabs continued to capture and sell slaves, but mostly in the Mediterranean. In fact, Robert Davis estimates that 1.25 million European Christians were enslaved by the "barbary states" of northern Africa. As late as 1801 the USA bombed Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli precisely to stop that Arab slave trade of Christians. The rate of mortality of those Christian slaves in the Islamic world was roughly the same as the mortality rate in the Atlantic slave trade of the same period.)"
The Origins of the Slave Trade
Africans Aboard a Slave Ship
For centuries before the Atlantic Slave Trade (triangle slave trade), the East African slave trade, also known as the Arab slave trade existed for thousands of years. Even in pre-Islamic Arabia blacks were bought and traded within known slave markets in Arabia.
Europeans officially abolished slavery in the 19th century. Arabs continued to enslave Blacks up till the late 20th century when they were forced to abolish slavery by the U.N. and Western pressure.
Also checkout Islamic Empires involvement in enslaving Europeans:
Muslim Enslavement of Europeans
Barbary slave trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slavic Slaves Within The Islamic World- Wikipedia