To reiterate what I said in 2003 about what the victims had to endure,

Would a young girl snatched from a tiny English hamlet, thrust into an utterly alien environment and valued only for her vagina agree with you?
Or the man, whose value was comparable to an onion, chained permanently to an oar until the day the lash could no longer animate him, and then disposed of. Had he been taken as a boy (highest value white slave) subjected to years of systematic buggery until he lost his boyish looks.

And as another contributor said,

ard mhacha - PM
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 01:55 PM

I taped that programme on the Arab Slavers and after another look, , I have to agree with Keith, this exsistence for the captives was hell on earth, the books I have read on this, leaves me to the conclusion that they fared worse than the black slaves. Ard Mhacha.