Editing Castration (section)

===Africa and the Middle East===
[[File:V.M. Doroshevich-East and War-Eunuch near Door of Sultan's Harem.png|thumb|Chief Eunuch of [[Abdul Hamid II]] (1912)]]
Over the 13 centuries of the [[Arab slave trade]] in Africa, unknown numbers of Africans were enslaved and shipped to the Middle East.

"The Caliphate in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace."<ref name= "amazon1">{{cite book |title=Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora |url=https://archive.org/details/islamsblackslave00sega |url-access=registration |isbn = 978-0374527976|last1 = Segal|first1 = Ronald|date = 9 February 2002|publisher=Macmillan }}</ref> The Arab slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves. Black boys at the age of eight to twelve had their penises and scrota completely amputated. Reportedly, about two out of three boys died, but those who survived drew high prices.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1210/jcem.84.12.6206| pmid= 10599682|title = Long-Term Consequences of Castration in Men: Lessons from the Skoptzy and the Eunuchs of the Chinese and Ottoman Courts| journal=The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism| volume=84| issue=12| pages=4324–4331|year = 1999|last1 = Wilson|first1 = Jean D.| last2=Roehrborn| first2=Claus| doi-access=free}}</ref>