Is Hitler the only racist left?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Taking slaves from Africa did not ruin the entire continent.

Indeed.

Until well into the 19th century, there were European slaves in Africa. Although not of the same scale as Africans taken by Europeans to the Americas, some estimates put the number of Europeans enslaved to Africa during the period of Atlantic slave trade alone as high as 1.5 million.

For a millenium, Mediterannean Europeans lived in constant danger of being raided and enslaved by Africans.


In the SouthEast of Europe, the Ottoman Empire systematically enslaved Europeans. Constantinople's population usually consited of about a quarter slaves, many from the Balkans. Men for the army, women as sex slaves. This didn't end until the 20th century.