Why is slavery in the Arab world not discussed much in the media? The slave ship below was photographed in 1896. The group of young boys may have been destined for castration to serve as eunuchs. The media and academia have selective moral outrage. Moral outrage against U.S. slavery serves political ends. Moral outrage against Islamic culture doesn’t serve political ends. The slaves photographed above were headed to a Muslim country well after the American Civil War. In fact, slavery in the United States was a good bit more humane than slavery in the Arab world. “ Terrible Aspects of Slavery in the Arab World . The Arabs’ treatment of black Africans can aptly be termed an African Holocaust. Arabs killed more Africans in transit, especially when crossing the Sahara Desert, than Europeans and Americans, and over more centuries, both before and after the years of the Atlantic slave trade. Arab Muslims began extracting millions of black African slaves centuries before Christian nat...