On the anniversary of the birth of our Master Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets and the Prophet of Mercy, Tolerance, Peace, Freedom, and Human Dignity, which also coincided in 2016 with the glorious Christmas holidays of Jesus Christ, peace be upon them, and which occur every 33 years due to the difference in the Hijri calendar, we discuss here the history of slavery: its past, present, and future, the slave trade, captives, and prisoners of war. This is a very ancient human tradition in all ancient civilizations and religions, dating back thousands of years. The evidence for this is that when the caravan found Joseph, son of Jacob, in a well, they sold him as a commodity and merchandise in his famous story with his brothers, the twelve tribes, until he reached the king of Egypt. When the religion of Islam came 14 centuries ago, slave markets and the sale of female slaves and boys were deeply rooted throughout all continents of the ancient world, even in India and the Arabian Peninsula. Our Prophet Muhammad, the liberator of slaves, and his noble companions, including Caliph Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, freed tens of thousands of slaves, including the Prophet's wives, Safiyya ibn Akhtab and Maria. Coptic, a gift from the King of Egypt. Also included were Bilal al-Habashi, the Prophet's muezzin; Suhayb al-Rumi; Salman al-Farsi; and Zayd ibn Haritha, whom the Prophet adopted before freeing him after the prohibition of adoption in Islam in a decisive Quranic verse: "Call them by the names of their fathers." However, adoption is still widespread in our world, especially in Europe, Asia, and America. Slavery also exists in areas and pockets plagued by this cursed disease in our modern, theoretically free world. The Prophet ordered the good treatment of slaves, not to subject them to forced labor or to work beyond their capacity, and not to describe them as slaves or female slaves. Rather, they should be described as servants, female slaves, or young boys. Work should be done on a contractual basis for a specific period of time and money, after which the slave or female slave is freed from the humiliation of slavery and servitude. The stereotypical image of the palaces and harems of the sultans and princes was of female slaves from all races and all over the world. The men among them served as guards and in the Mamluk armies, until they reached the rule of Egypt like a tree. Al-Durr, Queen of Egypt, Saif al-Din Qutuz, and al-Zahir Baybars, heroes of the Battle of Ain Jalut against the Tatars, and before them Turan Shah and the victory over the French Crusaders after their king, Louis IX, was captured and imprisoned in the house of Ibn Luqman in Mansoura. Recently, white European pirates and slave traders, by land and sea, shipped millions of black people, bound in chains and shackles, in a brutal manner from dark Africa to America and the New World, after the discovery of Australia, South Africa, India, and Indonesia (the East Indies) by Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English sailors. This followed the beginning of the era of maritime exploration in the New World, after the fall of Andalusia and the defeat of the Arabs and Muslims in present-day Spain after 800 consecutive years of their presence there. Over hundreds of years, the slave trade flourished among the wretched human beings. There were tragedies of murder and torture against Muslims, and even against Jews (who fled with the Muslims in Andalusia, escaping Christian persecution), and painful, dark atrocities that shame humanity and its honor, which Westerners claim. The Zionists now falsely and slanderously defend freedom and human rights after colonizing the countries of the East and plundering their resources and wealth. Now, they are liquidating them of their resources and wealth, displacing the arms of their youth and the minds of their scholars. They are constantly trying to falsify history in their media and films about the Sultan's harem by pinning the accusation of slavery on Islam, which is completely innocent of it. Indeed, the Westerners were the worst example of their brutality and greed, exterminating millions of Native American tribes (the indigenous people of America). Then they enslaved Negroes and engaged in the forbidden and abhorrent slave trade, including the trade of women and even children. They stole gold from the Gold Coast (Ghana), diamonds from the Congo and South Africa, ebony and ivory from the Ivory Coast, and all the riches of Asia, Africa, and South America as well. The African Negroes were barefoot, naked slaves, along with their women and children, in misery and deprivation of their most basic human rights, which were never recognized by their new owners because they were merely a commodity and merchandise bought and sold by the kilo. A pound on a scale was like an animal's. Thousands of them died while being transported across the Atlantic by sea, and their bodies were even thrown into the oceans. Those who arrived in America were subjected to menial, arduous, or forced labor in the fields of herding, farming, fishing, construction, and mining, among other things, without compensation other than the food and fodder they were given to keep them alive. They were even punished by flogging after being shackled when one of them demanded rest, good treatment, or simply the wearing of shoes to protect their feet from the heat or frost!! The slave trade was finally criminalized in the 19th century, during the time of Abraham Lincoln, the American president, before his assassination there.
Then the white slave trade (prostitutes) flourished.
Among the most famous defenders of civil rights in America are the African Martin Luther King, Jr., before his assassination, Malcolm X, and the late South African sage and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, who defeated the system of discrimination and apartheid imposed by the white Dutch and English against the black tribes, the indigenous people of the country. The famous novel "Roots", starring Kunta Kinte, was produced as a series that tells the story of their suffering, pain, and hopes for freedom.
This dark page in the history of the injustices of the Western world's tyranny against human rights and all the free people of the world, is one that we must never forget. We must always demand that the West fully apologize for, along with financial and developmental compensation for the African continent, especially after the arrival and subsequent departure of the African-American US President Barack Hussein Obama to the White House, the re-election of Donald Trump twice in 2016/24, and the lack of any significant change in American policies. The ugly truth, despite the differences between the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, remains constant and never changes in favor of hegemony and colonialism and serving the security of Israel and global Zionism, by sucking the blood of the Third World and sub-Saharan Africa, whose countries number more than fifty. 

Its population is close to one billion.

Finally, the birth of our Prophet Muhammad, the mercy of the worlds, is not an occasion to eat sweets and dance at the mawlid.

But rather, it is an occasion to implement his commandments and teachings to Muslims regarding worship and monotheism. The last thing our Master and Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said before his death in Medina was: "Prayer, prayer, and those whom your right hands possess."