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TIL 10-18 million Africans were taken by Arab slavers. This is more than the 12 million Africans shipped in the Atlantic slave trade, and 16-30 times more than the 600,000 slaves imported to America since 1620, which is less than the more than 1 million whites enslaved by Ottoman vassals.

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