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Islam's Black Slaves: The History of Africa's other Black Diaspora. . - Reviews - book review
Contemporary Review, June, 2002
Islam's Black Slaves: The History of Africa's other Black Diaspora. Ronald Segal. Atlantic Books. [pounds sterling]20.00. 273 pages. ISBN 1-903809-80-0. This study is in one sense a second volume to the author's earlier book, The Black Diaspora: Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa.
The Mohammedan trade in black slaves pre-dated the trade begun by the Dutch and continued by the British and Americans. Like them it drew on the fact that slavery (of blacks by blacks) was part of African life. Islamic slavery was largely confined to what we now call the 'service sector' as opposed to agriculture and preferred females to males, another difference to slavery in America. The author follows a basically chronological approach and shows what slavery meant in practice, to slaves, slave traders and owners. He takes his survey into the present and concentrates on slavery in Mauritania and the Sudan. He concludes his survey with a chapter on 'America's Black Muslim Backlash', a 'racism to combat racism'.
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