Images:Slavery

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Template:ImagesIndex Slavery is explicitly allowed by Islam. This sanction of slavery has helped the Muslim world create one of the largest trans-continental slave trades in history.

Slavery

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A painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme of a Slave Market.
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An African trader (possibly an Egyptian) with two Sudanese slave girls for sale. The African is a Muslim while the girls are not.
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13th century slave market in the Yemen
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A Muslim slave trader.
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A 19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara.
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A boy slave in the slave trade market of Zanzibar punished by his ‘Arab master’ by being chained to a 32 pound log.
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Harem pool with black eunuch slave. Black slaves serving harems were desirably castrated ‘level with the abdomen’.
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Unlike the West, slavery is still alive and thriving in the Islamic East.
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Finally free: Mende Nazer was abducted and sold into slavery in Sudan at the age of 12. She has been granted asylum in UK.

See Also

  • Slavery - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Slavery

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