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Islam's Black Slaves The Other Black Diaspora

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ISBN-10: 0374227748

ISBN-13: 9780374227746

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ronald Segal

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A pioneering history of the Eastern slave trade In this groundbreaking work intended as a companion volume to The Black Diaspora, Ronald Segal tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islamic slave trade. Documenting a centuries-old institution that still survives today, Islam's Black Slaves outlines the differences between the trades in the East and West. Slaves in Islam, for example, were kept mainly in the service sector as cooks, porters, soldiers, and concubines, and while the Atlantic trade valued men over women, the Eastern trade preferred women, in numbers as high as two to one. Tracing slavery through history, from Islam's inception in the seventh century, across China,…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/7/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Founding editor of the Penguin African Library, South African-born Ronald Segal is the author of fourteen books, including The Crisis of India, The Race War, The Americans, and The Black Diaspora (FSG, 1995). He lives in Surrey, England.

Preface
Contrasts
Out of Arabia
Imperial Islam
The Practice of Slavery
The Farther Reaches
China
India
Spain
Into Black Africa
The Ottoman Empire
The "Heretic" State: Iran
The Libyan Connection
The Terrible Century
East Africa
The Sudanic States and Sahara
Colonial Translations
Northern Nigeria
French Soudan
Mauritania
Somalia
Zanzibar and the Kenyan Coast
Survivals of Slavery
Mauritania
Sudan
Epilogue: America's Black Muslim Backlash
Notes
Index