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American and Muslim Slaveries

Slavery is as old as the world’s first civilizations. Two important slave movements were the one across the Sahara Desert and another along the East African coasts of the Indian Ocean, both of which terminated in slave markets in the Muslim world. The subject of slavery is viewed in contrast by different parts of the world. Narrowing to the topic of slavery in the Americas and the Muslim states, it is apparent that the two regions contain mostly different opinions as to whether slaves exist for sheer labor or that slaves are humans just like you and me. What is similar between the facts that Muslims view their slaves religiously with more compassion than that of the Americas, who view their slaves as crudely as “horses”? From a total of nine documents, they can be categorized into three groups. Documents 5, 6, and 8 contain statements that support slavery. Documents 2, 3, and 7 sway towards the idea against slavery, and the......

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