Moral Progress and the Problem of Slavery
Zealots at the Gate
The Morality of Slavery in the Islamic Tradition
The idea that you're saying these people are enslave will be cause of how they look and because of where they come from really disgusts some of these early abolitionist figures. In the case of Islam, what's very interesting is when Muslims start to kind of become morally convinced of abolition, as Christians had in the Americas,. They also start to express that through their religious tradition, like the Quranic and prophetic mandate to free slaves.
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