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>But of course Islam,. like Christianity, has teachings which in theory should have made slavery abhorrent. The problem, of course, was with the Christians and the Moslems. In fairness to the former, the anti-Slavery movement in Britain was very much driven by the Christian great awakening of the 18th century and no similar movement ever evolved in Islam.
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>No doubt the African slave trade would have never succeeded had Africans not been complicit. Goes back to one my historical maxims, that identifying bad guys does not reductively identify good guys.
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>Glad you're enjoying the course. I go through periods where as much as I like fiction I find myself being drawn back to history books. I have a library of them that rivals some universities :-)

Now you are just stirring up trouble with facts for the fun of it! :)