Posted on 10/20/2006 12:12:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"I didn't want to inconvenience you"
Thank you, but looking at the titles of those books, I don't know what they have to do with my comment.
Slavery was known in Africa long before Mohammed. But the slave trade in Africa as developed to service the western hemisphere colonies of various European countries was different than ancient slave trade in certain ways (not least because of the sheer volume). Moslems colonized Africa and part of that was the enslaving of unknown 100s of 1000s from black Africa.
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