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Slavery and Islam

Culture and Politics - A Second Battle of Tours

Written by Douglas Wilson

Friday, 12 October 2007 02:29

"While much has been written concerning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, surprisingly little attention has been given to the Islamic slaver trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. While the European involvement in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day" (Peter Hammond, Slavery, Terrorism & Islam, p. 1).

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lewsta

Friday, October 12, 2007 5:23 am

And another aspect of the transatlantic slave trade often left unmentioned is the role islam had in beginning it. Seems they, in pretying upon Africans for their own trade to the east, introduced the concept to the Africans themselves who then captured neighbouring tribes, brought them to the western seaports, and sold them for gain to the "white folks". Not to justify what the "white folks" did for their part...but the moslems were the initators of that trade, as well as their own.

lewsta

Friday, October 12, 2007 5:25 am

I don't recall the transatlantic slave trade lasting even two centuries. Jamestown in 1607, Massachusetts Bay in 1620, nothing significant here before that...and slavery ended with the Civil War, I believe 1860's here, and England well before that. I don't recall hearing of any significant slave trade much before 1700 or so, and it really didn't get rolling well until the mid-1700's. Three centuries? That's a stretch.

John Barry

Friday, October 12, 2007 9:08 am

South America?

Jane Dunsworth

Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:19 pm

To (I think) expand on what Mr. Barry said, as long as Portugal is still part of Europe, you have your solid three centuries of "European involvement in the transAtlantic slave trade." Slaves began being imported to Brazil in significant numbers very early in the 16th century, and the Caribbean slave trade was in full swing well before Jamestown.

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