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Islam's Black Slaves The Other Black Diaspora

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ISBN-10: 0374527970

ISBN-13: 9780374527976

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ronald Segal

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A comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islamic slave trade. Islam's Black Slaves documents a centuries-old institution that still survives, and traces the business of slavery and its repercussions from Islam's inception in the seventh century, through its history in China, India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, and Spain, and on to Sudan and Mauritania, where, even today, slaves continue to be sold. Ronald Segal reveals for the first time the numbers involved in this trade--as many millions as were transported to the Americas--and…    
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Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
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