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Martin Rady behauptet in "The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power", dass der österreichische Lloyd massiv afrikanische Sklaven von Ägypten in das Gebiet des Schwarzen Meers transportiert hat. Er schreibt:
Er nennt leider keine Quellen. Wer hat zu dieser Geschichte mehr Informationen oder Quellen? Welche Ethnien waren betroffen? Was war ihr Schicksal?Austrian ships not only transported cotton and silk but also took charge of
much local commerce in the Eastern Mediterranean, including the movement
of grain and other agricultural produce. They were also deeply implicated in
the slave trade, transporting captives from Alexandria in Egypt to the markets
of Istanbul and Izmir (Smyrna). Although figures on the slave trade are
speculative, about a million Africans were transported to the Eastern
Mediterranean in the nineteenth century. Of these, many tens of thousandtravelled in ships of the Austrian Lloyd.