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Slavery at the Frontiers of Islam (Paperback)
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Slavery at the Frontiers of Islam (Paperback)
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This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the
trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into
focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered
either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study
combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of
Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported
enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general
the two markets have been treated in isolation and without
reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that
Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa
itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa
served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was
also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but
who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara. The
relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of
frontiers: in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their
Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation
that arose there; in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim
societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of
issues of enslavement; in North Africa between Muslim masters and
the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of
spirit possession cults. The resistance of Muslims to assimilation
and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other
frontiers that are explored in this book.
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