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Squirrelie Joe's Coffee, and by Living Stones. In his book, Raymond Abraham, In his book, Defenders of the West, author and historian Raymond Ibrahim asserts that the single most important institution of the 15th century

Ottoman state was that of slavery. The Ottoman Empire enslaved millions of white Europeans,

which far surpassed the transatlantic slave trade involving the black slaves.

There were several purposes that Christian slaves served for the Ottoman Empire, including

sex slavery, which affected not only the women, but many of the men and especially the young boys as well.

This was closely tied to the practice of Devshirme, which was the practice made by the Turkish oppressors of kidnapping sons from

Christian nations as a form of blood tax.

Many of those sons, as we'll see more in just a moment, would become Janissaries, but would also be victims

of sexual assault at the hands of their Muslim lords.

The other most obvious role for slavery was that it supplied skilled labor to the Turkish workforce.

There was great profit to the Muslim state in taking the best and brightest from Christian

nations and forcing them to serve the Ottoman Empire, but it also kept Christian countries weak and subservient.

This type of slavery made use of mentally and physically gifted Christians as soldiers and

administrators, government officials, and other well-trained

military leaders. Quite obviously this type of slavery strengthened the Turks and as

Ibrahim says it was also meant to weaken and bleed dry the Christian nations.

Man-Steeling also reflected one of the key changes in tactics for Turkish forces.

Early conflicts between Christianity Turkish forces.

Early conflicts between Christianity and Islam were fought in traditional ways on the battlefield

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