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In March 2026, the United Nations passed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. The phrasing is sweeping and unequivocal, reflecting the immense suffering associated with the Atlantic system. Yet the certainty of this claim sits uneasily with the historical record. Once we step back and examine slavery across a wider span of time and geography, the picture becomes far more complicated, and less suited to simple hierarchies.
To begin with, the transatlantic slave trade was not an isolated phenomenon but one part of a much older and wider world of human trafficking. Long before European ships crossed the Atlantic, slave trades were operating across Africa, the Middle East, and Eurasia. The trans Saharan slave trade, for instance, stretched over a millennium, linking sub–Saharan Africa to North Africa and the Islamic world. The East African slave trade, in turn, connected inland regions to markets across the Indian Ocean. These systems were not minor or incidental. They were deeply embedded in regional economies and social structures, and in many cases lasted far longer than the Atlantic trade itself.
At this point, however, a crucial limitation emerges. Unlike the Atlantic system, which is relatively well documented, earlier and non-Atlantic trades often lack consistent quantitative data. Records are fragmentary, estimates vary widely, and entire regions remain understudied. This makes direct comparison extraordinarily difficult. In other words, declaring one slave system the “gravest crime” assumes a level of comparability that the evidence simply does not provide.
Even when we narrow our focus to the Atlantic world, the reality is more layered than it is often presented. There is no question that the Middle Passage was brutal and that mortality rates were high. Yet, over time, the trade adapted in ways that reflected its underlying economic logic. Enslaved individuals were treated as capital investments, and their survival mattered financially. As a result, conditions on slave ships became, to some extent, subject to regulation. By 1788, British legislation formalized practices that had already begun to emerge. The Dolben Act required the presence of a ship’s surgeon, turning what had previously been an informal obligation into a legal one. It also introduced a system of financial incentives, rewarding captains and doctors when mortality rates fell below certain thresholds, with greater rewards for exceptionally low death rates. At the same time, traders became more selective in choosing captives for transport, favoring those deemed more likely to survive the voyage. None of this mitigates the moral horror of the trade, but it does show that the system evolved under economic and humanitarian pressures, rather than remaining static in its brutality.
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If we widen the lens further, the uniqueness of the Atlantic system becomes even less clear. Consider, for example, the evidence from Eastern Central Europe in the sixth century BCE. Here, archaeological findings point to Scythian incursions that were not merely raids in the conventional sense but sustained campaigns of violence, enslavement, and demographic destruction. Entire regions were destabilized. The Silesian Oder Basin, which had strong cultural ties to the Central European Hallstatt world, was effectively emptied of population by the end of the sixth century BCE. This was not a temporary disruption but a profound demographic collapse. Similar patterns can be seen in the Western Carpathian Basin, where lowland regions in Transdanubia and Lower Austria experienced repeated attacks that led to drastic depopulation and cultural fragmentation. What emerges here is a system of organized slave raiding with consequences that were, at a regional level, just as devastating as those associated with later slave trades.
Moving forward in time, the Black Sea slave trade under the Crimean Khanate offers another striking point of comparison. In this case, slavery was not a peripheral activity but a central economic pillar. Trade in captives was one of the most important sources of income for the Khanate, shaping its military strategy and political economy. Raiding expeditions into neighboring territories such as Poland, Lithuania, and Russia were conducted with the explicit aim of capturing people for sale. The scale of these operations was enormous. Estimates suggest that around 10,000 captives were taken each year, amounting to roughly two million individuals between 1500 and 1700. This figure excludes the Caucasus, meaning the true total was likely even higher. What is particularly striking is that this places the Black Sea trade on a scale comparable to the Atlantic slave trade during a similar period, which also involved around two million people between the mid fifteenth and late sixteenth centuries.
The human impact of this system is difficult to overstate. Contemporary observers described slave markets in the Crimea as scenes of constant anguish. Families were separated, children were torn from parents, and individuals were sold amid cries, pleading, and despair. These were not isolated incidents but routine features of a system that operated continuously for centuries. The Lithuanian ambassador to the Crimea, Michalon Lituanus (Mikhail Litvin), for example, recounted the awful condition of his fellow countrymen, having personally witnessed their sale in the market of Caffe. Indeed, the volume of captives was so large that some observers remarked on the seemingly endless supply of human beings being brought into the region.
At the same time, the structure of this trade reveals another important pattern. It was not driven by a single group but by a network of participants. Jewish communities in the Crimea, both Karaite and Rabbanite, were involved in various aspects of the system. Documentary evidence points to their roles as merchants, intermediaries, and officials, including positions within customs administration. This reflects a broader reality of slave systems across history. They were rarely confined to one society or one set of actors. Instead, they were embedded in wider economic networks that drew in diverse participants, each contributing to the functioning of the trade.
Taken together, these examples complicate any attempt to single out the transatlantic slave trade as uniquely the greatest crime against humanity. This is not to diminish its scale or brutality. Rather, it is to recognize that other systems, often less studied and less discussed, produced comparable levels of suffering and, in some cases, operated over longer periods or across equally vast regions.
What, then, explains the prominence of the Atlantic trade in modern discourse? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the historical record itself. From an early stage, abolitionists undertook detailed investigations into the slave trade, documenting its practices, its human toll, and its economic structure with remarkable thoroughness. Their efforts generated a large body of empirical material, from ship records to mortality data, which has shaped how historians understand the trade ever since. In contrast, earlier and non-Atlantic systems were rarely subjected to the same level of systematic scrutiny, leaving significant gaps in the evidence.
At the same time, contemporary narratives also play a role. The Atlantic slave trade involved European powers and African populations, and its legacy is often interpreted through a framework that emphasizes inequality between regions. Africa today remains the world’s poorest continent, and this reality reinforces a narrative in which historical exploitation is seen as a key explanatory factor. By contrast, other populations that experienced large-scale enslavement in the past, including many European groups targeted in systems such as the Black Sea trade, do not fit as easily into this framework. As a result, the Atlantic system occupies a more prominent place in modern discussions of historical injustice.
If the goal is to understand slavery as a historical phenomenon, then a broader approach is essential. This means paying attention not only to the Atlantic world but also to less familiar systems, from ancient Eurasian slave raids to early modern trafficking networks in the Black Sea. It means acknowledging the limits of our data and resisting the urge to impose simple rankings on complex historical realities.
The 2026 United Nations resolution reflects a politically correct framing of history, shaped less by balanced scholarship and more by a desire to reinforce a familiar oppressor narrative that places disproportionate moral blame on Western societies. Such portrayals often function to shame Western audiences rather than to encourage a genuinely comprehensive understanding of the issue. A more serious and constructive approach would move beyond selective moralizing and instead direct attention toward the persistence of slavery in the modern world—particularly in parts of Africa—where it continues to exist in various forms and demands urgent global scrutiny.
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What, then, explains the prominence of the Atlantic trade in modern discourse?
I believe it was Sam Francis who tried to remind Whites that our ancestors’ global success and consequent humiliation of what we call the Third World’s ancestors has resulted in most of the globe harboring deep resentment against the White West. Anything designed to damage us will gain their support.
As well, Whites are the only group on the planet* who fall for this kind of moralizing attack. None of the other many slave-holding societies can be made to feel bad about it so no one tries. We are an easy target for this kind of blame game.
The fact that the entire enterprise rested wholly on the Africans providing other Africans to the ships waiting by the shore will be minimized or ignored.
And just as a historical note, the Arab Muslim slave trade, far older, far more widespread and far more brutal than the Atlantic, goes unmentioned, for the above reasons.
PS. The sooner the UN collapses, the better.
*With the possible exception of the Japanese.
I don’t think the Japanese would fall for the reparations scam. They are not that stupid. Only Whites would fall for such a Jewish swindle.
Reparations, no. But they have engaged in formal apologies for some of their actions in WW2 and some of the Japanese I have met said they felt shame about that.
Here, archaeological findings point to Scythian incursions that were not merely raids in the conventional sense but sustained campaigns of violence, enslavement, and demographic destruction.
I remember an interesting book of German writer Britta Verhagen Kam Odin-Wodan aus dem Osten. The author argued there, that the historical prototype of the God Odin was a Skythian prince from North coast of Black sea or Azov sea, who with his riding tribe invaded Europe just of Halstatter Culture (modern Czechia, Western Poland, part of Austria, and eastern part of Germany), and he was so feared by locals, that they have seen in him a magician, and later even a God.
Moving forward in time, the Black Sea slave trade under the Crimean Khanate offers another striking point of comparison.
Another example is from some time earlier. The Slavs were massively bought and sold by the so-called Rahdonites, Persian-Jewish slave traders, which mainly cooperated with Varyagian princes in this trade. Just like it was in Africe, where the European traders bought captives from local African kings and chieftains. Because of this early medieval slave trade the word slave itself in many European languages (Sklave, sklaaf, schiavo, etc.) originates from the word Slav.
As the author correctly points out, slavery was practiced everywhere, by everyone, for thousands of years.
Any focus on the African slave trade is merely a pretext to extort money from White people today. It’s hypocritical. It’s Jewish. Jewish middlemen will be arranging and administering the extortion of Whites, keeping most of the money for themselves as usual.
Reparations is another Jewish scam. All slave-traders in Africa were Black. Get the money from their descendents, not ours. Or better still, get it from the Jews. Make the Jews pay for all ongoing harm they’ve committed against the White race.
During this last presidential election Kamala Harris said something to the effect that she supports reparations. I can’t remember her exact words, I’m sure that you can find it on YouTube, though.
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by Simon Webb (Author) This is a good read that can be helpful for those of us suffering from the guilt-shaming phycological abuse perpetrated by malicious, envious, and truly sadistic nons. The U.N. must be ignored, abandoned, and shut down ASAP! It is too far gone to be saved. It has a terminal case of THE DISEASE (Anti-Whiteism).
As with the seamier points of National Socialism, one should usually “step over” the slave trade as un point de detail de l’histoire. It’s just not worth the candle.
In dismissing it, one might point out that most slaves had not, in fact, been enslaved; no, they were slaves from the get-go! Those who truly had been enslaved had this happen because some of their fellow Bkack Africans shackled and sold them. In North America, at least, these African negroes and their descendants got a pretty sweet deal. Their masters had to provide them with food, shelter and clothing throughout their lives, even though their usefulness as working slaves was generally only about half that.
Finally, slavery afforded the Negro a deep exposure to a higher culture, full of finer thoughts. Although their attempts to ape the White Man’s high culture inevitably resulted in some bizarre pasquinade (think: nearly any Democrat “African-American” politician), self-parodying versions of this often provided entertaining results. One thinks of the Christy Minstrels and Jim Crow, Satchmo Armstrong, Amos ‘n’ Andy with the Kingfish, and of course Nat King Cole and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
And of course the blessings of Christianity, which held out hope to these Godless savages that they might actually have a chance to be saved: a concept that their tribal animism and paganism had no words for.
The spread of Jewish mythology across Europe and the Middle East is by far the gravest crime against humanity, a genocide on a scale where nothing else even comes close. To hear how Christianity was spread across the The Islands of the North Atlantic makes my blood boil. We should be making the same stink about this genocide in similar fashion as jews do with “The holly” and naming the group responsible.
Bringing African Negroes to America to pick cotton and whatever else was arguably the biggest mistake our forefathers made — by far the biggest! The brilliant David Sims expresses it well, here: “Blacks: The Cost Is Too Great” at nationalvanguard.org
Whites would have made great achievements without Black slaves. Certainly, enslaving Blacks was a great mistake, not only in the moral sense. It was also an economic blunder and a social catastrophe, the effects of which linger to this day.
However, the oppressive results of slavery on Blacks, however, don’t really linger into the present; that’s just an excuse that leftists make to obfuscate real, biology-based racial differences.
Without Blacks as slaves, mostly used as cheap farm labor, Whites would have plowed and hoed their own fields and picked their own cotton. Blacks weren’t necessary to building America, and, given what happened to the country after Whites relented from slavery, their presence over the entire history and pre-history of the United States has had profoundly net negative effects. They’ve cost far, far more than they were ever worth….
The comment under Mr. Sims’ piece by Old Aardvark says it all:
Whatever dumb muscle black slaves contributed to the building of America, it is a fraction of the dumb muscle contributed by horses and mules. 😊
White America at least wasn’t stupid enough to grant its livestock the voting franchise and allow them to sit on juries.
Back in the eighties and the early nineties, many gun-shows in the South would have a table selling various T-shirts and other merchandise. Most of them would have some type of pro-gun message. Anyway, I used to see vendors that would sell T-shirts and bumper stickers that said, “If I knew that this was going to happen, I would have picked my own cotton”.
Indeed!
A bigger crime against humanity is the ‘Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade’s’ continuing aftermath.
In the 19th century the white powers ended slavery worldwide. And a lot of people in Africa, the Middle East and Asia never forgave whites for this abolition.
Slavery was an inherent part of their societies. When whites took down slavery, those societies lost wealth, prestige and the ability to lord it over their neighbors.
The anti-slavery “narrative” of today is a form of PSYOP. It has little to nothing to do with the actual slave trade, Trans-Atlantic or otherwise. It’s a way for third worlders and UN echelon globalists to shake down YT via rackets such as reparations and more third world migrations.
Now that white countries are showing weakness (open borders, multi-cultism, kowtowing to migrant-invaders, etc) there may be a resumption of the slave trade run by Muslims et alia. Check of assertion: Rotherham.
The response to the UN 2026 Resolution is to treat it as what it actually is: a declaration of war against the white world.
I don’t have a real problem with this. We don’t aim to re-instate slavery and declaring the trans-Atlantic slave trade “the worst thing ever” is a smack in the face of holocaust-grifters, whose ire we suffer daily.
Yes, the Victim Olympics competition continues.
Some commentators might remember the Rwandan civil war in the nineties which is commonly referred to as the Rwandan Genocide. Many people still blame western nations for not intervening in it and trying to stop it. Bill Clinton has stated that his biggest regret as president was not sending troops to that country to reinforce a U.N. peace keeping mission. The point that I’m making is that people will attempt to find a way to blame white, western nations for their own atrocities.
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