Comment on Islamic slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
ivan@piefed.social 4 days agoBut they kept African slave trade until last century, why are there almost no black people in Arabia?
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Comment on Islamic slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
ivan@piefed.social 4 days agoBut they kept African slave trade until last century, why are there almost no black people in Arabia?
Oh.
PugJesus@piefed.social 4 days ago
Interestingly enough, there used to be a relatively large partially-Black ("Zanj") population in Iraq and the Levant!
Despite the Arabian peninsula being culturally important to Arab peoples, it couldn’t support a large population of slaves, because it couldn’t support a large population of… anyone, really, until the discovery of a vast wealth of oil reserves in the mid-20th century.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I suspect you are correct. Its also important to note that only the elite own slaves. And they would concentrate them on their business interests.