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Slavery: A debate about Sowell's views on the history of slavery.

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The History of Slavery in the Arab World

The Arab slave trade involved close to 2 million transactions over its history. Few or no civilized African, Native American, Muslim or South Asian societies had effective bands on slavery prior to Western contact. Slavery became a moral issue basically for the first time in the Enlightenment West. The reaction of most powerful nations of color to this was resistance.

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