Maybe Giles Milton"s *White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow 
and Islam's One Million White Slaves* (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005) 
might be of interest.
HG

> Slavery has been practiced by probably every culture and race on  earth, 
> at some time. Probably most have been the victims of slavery,  too. And 
> cannibalism was found in almost all cultures, if you go far  enough back. 
> Sometimes for food, more often for a ritual purpose. Or  both.
>
> Nancy
>

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