yes because they were not moslems

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
     and Public Policy
Albany Law School
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Muslims also captured and enslaved Europeans.

Anita


>From: Paul Heinegg <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
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>Subject: Re: Madison's slaves (and black descendants?)
>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:04:26 -0500
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>6)  They are not Moslems so it is ok to enslave the infidel * common 
>throughout North African and Middle East.
>
>Paul, there is an interesting book by Ronald Segal called "Islam's Black 
>Slaves" where he shows that many if not most of the 14 million slaves taken 
>from Africa in the Muslim slave trade over eight centuries of trading were 
>actually Muslims. In the 1960s the East African port authorities were still 
>checking Dhows for slaves from the coastal areas (where most people are 
>Muslims), and in the 1980s the Saudis were kidnapping Muslims from West 
>Africa who came for the Haj.
>Paul

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