Muslims also captured and enslaved Europeans. Anita >From: Paul Heinegg <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Madison's slaves (and black descendants?) >Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:04:26 -0500 > >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 _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best Web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507