Marc Faber was recently accused of being a racist. One of the things he said was about slavery. Just yesterday I was reading The Founders and the Bible by Carl Richard (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and came across this passage (p. 199) that relates to something Faber said: Far from being a uniquely American phenomenon, slavery was an ancient and ubiquitous institution. Near Eastern Muslims began the sub-Saharan African slave trade in the seventh century, a full millennium before Europeans became involved in it, and imported as many as fourteen million African slaves over the next thirteen centuries, a number … Continue reading Marc Faber’s Comments