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To: electron1
American slaves were purchased from Islamic slave traders in Africa.
76 posted on 11/06/2003 5:06:57 PM PST by OK
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To: OK
American slaves were purchased from Islamic slave traders in Africa.

Seldom. Almost all American slaves came from the Gulf of Guinea area of West Africa. The coastal Africans then (as today) were seldom Moslem. More often they were animists. They used the guns and goods they got from the traders to finance purchase of slaves and raids on tribes further inland. At this point in history, Moslems were still mostly quite a ways further north.

92 posted on 11/06/2003 5:16:22 PM PST by Restorer
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