Ne know today that the miseries, poverty, long demographic stagnation and stunted development of the black continent are not the only fact of the consequences of triangular trade, as many people imagine, far from it . Although there are no degrees of horror or a monopoly on cruelty, it can be safely argued that the slave trade and the warlike expeditions brought about by the Arab Muslims were for 'Black Africa and throughout the centuries, much more devastating than the transatlantic slave trade.
The painful chapter of the deportation of Africans to Islamic lands is comparable to genocide. This deportation was not only limited to the deprivation of liberty and forced labor. It was also - and to a large extent - a veritable programmed enterprise of what might be termed “ethnic extinction by castration.” On the subject, many writings testify to the abominable treatment which the Arabo-Moslems reserved for the African captives and also, of their solid contempt towards the people of bilad as-Sudan (the Country of the Blacks.) Thus and in this regard, the historian Ibn-Khaldum states: “the only peoples to accept slavery are the negroes, because of a lower degree of humanity, their place being closer to the animal stage”, judgment which speaks for itself. Many African peoples had nevertheless converted to Islam, especially since the arrival of the Almoravids. This conversion in no way preserved them from the state of “prey”, despite their status as “foreigners” and “recent converts.” Because if Islamic law does not take any form of discrimination linked to what should be called “the race” at the time, the Arabs will take their ease with the spirit of the text.
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Release Date | 2008-01-17T00:00:01Z |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 272 |
Publication Date | 2008-01-17T00:00:01Z |