THE LONG-FORGOTTEN TRADE IN WHITE SLAVES BY MUSLIMS PART 3
This section may appear to be a digression from the subject of slavery, but in fact it is very germane to the issue, and are necessary to explain how the Spanish people – and more particularly their monarch – King Philip 111 of Spain sowed the wind; and how his subjects reaped the whirlwind. It was the Romans who introduced the vine and the olive, into the botanically impoverished Iberian Peninsula; and turned the great plains of Spain into “ The Granary of the Roman world.” From the 8 th... Sign in to see full entry.