Arab Slavery may have been written on the books as stopping in the 1870's,
but that is crock. The Muslims still have slaves, sell slaves and enslave
people all over a lot of the African continent.  
While everyone is blasting G. Washington, T. Jefferson and all of those
other nasty slave holders, let's not forget who was selling those prisoners
and Africans to John Hawkins, Francis Drake, the other English ships'
captains, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Italians and whoever else showed up on
the western coast of Africa to transport to the 'new world'. The Arabs were
the sales agents and the others were the transporters. If you are going to
complain, complain about the ones who were the instigators, the sellers, and
the precipitators' of the inequity that we all know occurred called slavery.
The 1st purchasers of African slaves were the Spanish in the Caribbean and
Mexico. 
Please condemn the ones, who are responsible for the sale of their fellow
Africans and their enemies to the shippers for these problems, but please do
not try to impose 21st century mores' on 18th century people. 

John Philip Adams

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Subject: Re: Slavery and immoral stance, etc.

Wasn't slavery also stopped by Islamists in Central Asia in
the 1870s?  What are the best sources for this particular topic?

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I lent someone my copy of "Islam's Black Slaves" by Ronald Segal, but I 
believe all Islamic countries continued to practice slavery until pressured 
by the West to stop. It was part of their culture which became tied to their

religion. Today, one-third the population of Mauretania are still slaves and

a good percentage of the population of the Sudan.
Paul