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The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Paperback, illustrated Edition)
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The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Paperback, illustrated Edition)
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For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic
slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been
spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into
the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to the early
twentieth century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly
taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red
Sea, as were transported across the Atlantic in a much shorter
period. Yet their story has not yet been told. This book provides
an introduction to this ""other"" slave trade, and to the Islamic
cultural context within which it took place, as well as the effect
this context had on those who were its victims. After an
introductory essay, there are sections on Basic Texts (Qur'an and
Hadith), Some Muslim Views on Slavery, Slavery and the Law,
Perceptions of Africans in Some Arabic and Turkish Writings, Slave
Capture, the Middle Passage, Slave Markets, Eunuchs and Concubines,
Domestic Service, Military Service, Religion and Community, Freedom
and Post-Slavery, and the Abolition of Slavery. A concluding
segment provides a first-person account of the capture,
transportation, and service in a Saharan oasis by a West African
male, as related to a French official in the 1930s.
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