SunDeep
Banned
10% is "massive" now? Depending on where one looks, there are more blondes than that. And I've never heard anyone describe (except as a stereotype) blonde hair being predominant.
Well, when one considers that the entire continent of present-day Europe only counts for 10% share of the world demographic, I'd say that was a relatively large portion of the population to be enslaved, wouldn't you?
Yet somehow despite a lively slave market OTL (in the Islamic world), we don't see any interest in selling prisoners to them. I suppose that might tell us something
Given that the Crusades had only come to an end with the fall of Acre at the very end of the 14th century, it isn't exactly hard to work out why, is it now?
My interest is in discussing what might have been. And "Europe is dominated by African slave traders" would require a POD so far back as to make Europe as we know it unrecognizable, as well as the African states that are climbing to a position to have something worth selling slaves for, like how Europeans OTL could offer firearms.
This thread was about the possibility of having an African scramble for Europe in an ATL (which, by the way, would probably make Europe as we know it unrecognisable regardless of how it comes about). Having "Europe dominated by African slave traders", especially given that the reverse wasn't really true IOTL, isn't necessary at all- However, I felt that the ATL scenario which it fitted into, along with the causes which would lead to this and the long-term consequences of Euro-American slavery, would be one of the most logical and interesting way to achieve this outcome.
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