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The Unknown Slavery: In the Muslim world, that is -- and it's not over.
When Henry Morton Stanley explored the Congo River's Boyoma Falls, the cascades weren't the only thing he noticed: "Every three or four miles we came in view of the black traces of the destroyers. The scarred stakes, poles of once populous settlements, scorched banana groves, and prostrate palms, all betokened ruthless ruin."
The perpetrators of this wreckage were slavers. As late as 1883 -- when Stanley wrote -- they were scouring the African countryside for people they could seize and haul into bondage. Their gruesome search destroyed whole villages, leaving once-prosperous areas devoid of inhabitants. Their forced marches to the coast were ghastly, with the ...
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- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight December 1, 1998 700+ words
The drive against Christianity within the Islamic world may be gaining momentum. Islamabad--In Pakistan, British...estimates 3000 young boys and girls have been sold into slavery this year alone. In August, two Catholic priests and 28...
- International law and slavery.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Military Review Welton, Mark D. January 1, 2008 700+ words
...of cheap labor, making slavery economically less desirable. Consequently, slavery declined in many parts...near the border with the Islamic world, Muslim captives were...Hemisphere, they deemed slavery and the slave trade to...
- Hazel Waters. Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the...
- Magazine article from: African American Review Pierrot, Gregory June 22, 2008 700+ words
...Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character...foremost an incarnation of the Islamic world, and as such used as a figure...revolve around the issue of slavery, and testified to the uneasiness...order whose driving force was slavery" (11). In Oroonoko and...
- Breaking the chains; the Royal Navy's war against white slavery.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2007 700+ words
...Breaking the chains; the Royal Navy's war against white slavery. Pocock, Tom. Naval Institute Press 2006 216 pages $29...Royal Navy's role in that conflict, which was viewed by the Islamic world as a revival of the crusades. The focus is on the 1827 sea...
- RUSSIA, ISLAMIC WORLD DIALOG EXPECTED TO FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Strategic Vision, Russia - The Islamic World" here on March 27-28, 2006...gives priority to the dialog with the Islamic world. He explained that Russia has a long history of the Islamic world, relating to the aspects of economy...
- Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966-1999: An...
- Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record McCrank, Lawrence J. June 22, 2007 700+ words
...Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966-1999: An Annotated Bibliography...librarianship and information science in the Islamic world, as the title defines its subject...country by country, then by author. The Islamic world is presented by geographic regions...
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies BOSWORTH, C. EDMUND January 1, 2001 700+ words
...Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World edited by Francis Robinson. Cambridge...Francis Robinson's fine Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500 (London, 1982), which...history and cultural survey of the Islamic world containing a plethora of excellent...
- A Message to President Obama From Christian Copts of California: Reconciliation...
- News wire article from: Bioterrorism Week June 8, 2009 700+ words
...to deliver a message to the Islamic World. The speech is expected to...the differences between the Islamic World and the United States. The...between the United States and the Islamic World has suffered serious setbacks...
