Michelle Leyland Mortgages

Bracing myself for the hate from this one… About 450,000 African slaves were taken from Africa to North America. Meanwhile, about 1.25 million Europeans (English, French, Icelandic, Danes, Dutch, Welsh, etc) were taken from Europe to Africa as slaves. Yes, 1.25 million!!! See this drawing from 1675 showing the slave journey. The women were mainly used as sex slaves or domestic servants. The men as labourers or soldiers, with some undergoing castration and becoming eunuchs. It was considered a sign of prosperity for an Algerian or Turkish leader to have white skinned eunuchs and female sex slaves. The punishments for these slaves were horrific. Their noses and ears cut off for misbehaving, shackled in chains. In many cases they were forced to convert to Islam. Their children were taken from them and often faced a difficult fate as sex slaves. So, if you want to talk about reparations, let’s start here.