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High Point University - SPRING 2011 | ||
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Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (Updated Edition) by Bernard W. Lewis Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-19-505326-5 / 0195053265 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505326-5 / 9780195053265 From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes to the African jungles |