User talk:2601:42:0:C4E0:A5F1:1BDD:21EC:B81C

December 2023
Hello, I'm AgisdeSparte. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Slavery in the Ottoman Empire, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. AgisdeSparte (talk) 19:54, 23 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Good Afternoon. Thank you for the message. I removed false information. There is no evidence that the Coptic Orthodox Church as a whole participated in the slave trade.
 * Also, the following excerpt from the Eunuch page questions the claims:
 * “However, neither "Abou Gerbe", as an actual monastery, nor "Mount Ghebel Eter", as an actual location, are known. Additionally, the cited references from Andrews, Remondino and Spooner appear circular, originating in tales told by a single French explorer. The later cited sources simply copy the earlier ones. Further, the 90% mortality rate seems economically improbable, given that it would require that markets paid at least 15 times the value of an uncastrated slave boy for a eunuch slave boy. A modern peer-reviewed source reports survival in Chinese court castrations of children at 33%, which is quite low, but nevertheless far higher than reported by Remondino. The same source reports later adult castrations as having a survival rate of 98%. Consequently, the accounts of castration by Coptic monks reported above, along with the 90% mortality figure, should be treated with considerable skepticism.” 2601:42:0:C4E0:A94F:D662:ACFF:7804 (talk) 18:10, 26 February 2024 (UTC)