This book demonstrates rigor and a clear style (and committed) the People of the Book are enslaved each other.
This book is the story of a story that evil begins and continues, badly in some places of the world, in Mauritania or elsewhere, more or less hidden.
It is the history of black slavery by Muslims from the Arab-Muslim sources of the seventh to the 19th century, Western and African recent work.
Europe side, the Christian side, the aggiornamento was made by John Paul II, the Church of England and some Western heads of state (including J. Chirac, sponsor of a monument).
Side Islam, we are still waiting, also Jewish side (the Jews of Ethiopia, or Beta Israel -dits Falachas- are also ghettoized, see "Falashas" in Universalis).
For Jacques Heers, which is not a revisionist, Emeritus Professor of History from Paris IV Sorbonne, hate biased visions. YES, the Transatlantic is a shame of the modern West and informed (think Voltaire, aware of trafficking, not taking offense to point, and anxious only to have enough sugar to put in his chocolate and mocking of "negroes" !!!). YES, it is a crime against humanity.
Only we were not alone. And not the first, nor the last.
This book tells the Arab-Muslim Treaty, the complicity of white Christians, the black kings of Dahomey, the tribes delighted to get rid of their enemies, the Jewish merchants in this sinister "trade". It lasted 1,200 years. We do not talk about.
Unlike Tidiane N'Diaye, author of "veiled genocide," Jacques HEERS does not attempt to quantify the loss and for the excellent reason that accounting documentation (log books, account books, books of slave ) only found that from the 16th to 17th centuries, mainly in the western trafficking.
There has genocide, it can be argued AT LEAST a million souls decency and logic (and it is already too), however, there can never burn a figure on the cenotaph of blacks uprooted from their tribe, their families , to their land, emasculated, ending in the holds, salt, mines, sources naphtha (tar), cities for cleaning steam rooms, Arab-Muslim plantations.
