{"id":19175,"date":"2022-04-05T00:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19175"},"modified":"2022-04-05T00:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:35:06","slug":"the-slave-trade-wasnt-just-trans-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/04\/05\/the-slave-trade-wasnt-just-trans-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slave Trade Wasn&#8217;t Just Trans-Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slavery has existed throughout history and everywhere, not just undertaken by European powers against sub-Saharan Africans. While the European explorers who first sailed down to western Africa mainly tapped into an existing market, others, like the Ottomans were still buying slaves from those of near pitch black skin to the pasty wide Icelanders, as recounted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M2EJChRdxL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enslaved Icelander \u00d3lafur Egilsson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2EJChRdxL0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When does Iceland get reparations for the Icelanders who were enslaved?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/icelandic-slaves-of-the-ottomans.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/icelandic-slaves-of-the-ottomans.png 762w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/icelandic-slaves-of-the-ottomans-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Slave Trade Wasn't Just Trans-Atlantic\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Slavery has existed throughout history and everywhere, not just undertaken by European powers against sub-Saharan Africans.  While the European explorers who first sailed down to western Africa mainly tapped into an existing market, others, like the Ottomans were still buying slaves from those of near pitch black skin to the pasty wide Icelanders, as recounted by the enslaved Icelander \u00d3lafur Egilsson.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/icelandic-slaves-of-the-ottomans.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slavery has existed throughout history and everywhere, not just undertaken by European powers against sub-Saharan Africans. While the European explorers who first sailed down to western Africa mainly tapped into an existing market, others, like the Ottomans were still buying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/04\/05\/the-slave-trade-wasnt-just-trans-atlantic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,24,48],"class_list":["post-19175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19177,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions\/19177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}