..., in particular, and the Global South, in general, I grapple with the workings of racial capitalism through a kindred but distinct history, namely, the East African slave trade and the Ottoman empire's multivalent involvement in it. It is quite frustrating but hardly surprising that the wide-reaching...

... rights blog, describes the evidence that Sellers’ marshals to make her claim. Sellers, they write, emphasizes that “while Muslim men cannot have more than four wives under Islamic law, they may have unlimited concubines, and the East African Slave Trade supplied the Ottoman empire's demand for concubines...

... be said to share those histories in any clean or uncomplicated way. In Turkey, the transatlantic slave trade historically overlapped with other iterations of slavery, including the East African Ottoman slave trade. Today, Turkish claims to Blackness and whiteness are mediated by the country's strategic...

... brought into South Carolina.2 Mr. Higgins is assistant professor of history at Murray State University, Kentucky. 1W. E. B. Du Bois, in The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (New York, 1969), p. 9, says that of all the English continental colonies...

.... In this it was not successful. Its petitions to Parliament were met by counterpetitions of separate traders and others whose interests lay in competition in the trade. 2 The definitive work on the company is K. G. Davies, The Royal African Company (London, 1957). The Business of Slave Trading 411 The petitions and pamphlets...

... in the Maghreb and the Middle East has continued, and has even worsened since the end of 2017. I would thus like to insist on the following point: the question of reparations in Arab countries in general, as well as the questions regarding the condition of black Libyans and black sub-Saharan Africans in Libya...

... of Africans were also formed in Europe, the Middle East, and India. Africans often used the clerical communities of a linked brotherhood to form interdependent communities in dispersal, sometimes reaching as far as Cairo and many other holy sites in the Muslim world.10 Numerically, however, those who...

...W. J. Carnathan Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The Proposal to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the South, 18?4-186O W. J. Carnathan College of the City of New York When the future historian shall address himself to the task of portraying the rise, progress, and decline...

.... Indeed, they have been central themes of 26 Caribbean scholarship. Here, slave quarters are telling. This space imposed the sudden dis- covery of a common African past, but also the awareness that this common- ality barely covered fundamental differences. One could not address...

... embodied markers (Sharkey 2008; Idris 2005). It was the case, how- ever, that many northern Sudanese were invested in a categorical distinction that highlighted their links to the Muslim Middle East and distinguished them from “Africans” (Deng 1995). In a similar vein, people in the south had...

...: to establish trade between the fledgling colony of Sierra Leone and the countries of England and America in order to end African dependence upon the slave trade. With the two trips he made there, he wanted to firm up the colony’s...

..., the Caribbean region is further splintered by differ- ent communities (East Indians, Chinese, Syrians, Lebanese, to name only a few, in addition to the descendants of various European, African, and surviv- ing Amerindian...

... to any alternative. They proceed from the premise that the root of the southern problem is racial (i.e., the fact that the southerners are Africans while northerners are Arab), and they say that since one cannot change Negro into Arab, nor Arab into Negro, then it follows that the two must...

... joyed in the Middle East and political difficulties which the Ottoman Empire faced both internally and internationally threatened, but did not substantially disrupt, American commercial activity in the area. The Turkish treaty of 1831 and the individual trade conventions with the North African states...

..., and blacks behind both. In his raciological justifications for white imperialism, Gobineau argues, “History springs only from con- tact with the white races.”7 Only through violent contact with white Euro- peans, explains Adolf Hitler’s favorite race theorist, could East Asians and Africans be brought...

... and beautiful as I am black but beautiful. The talmudic interpretation of the Curse of Canaan as blackness first emerged in Mesopotamian society, which had an increasing num­ ber of African slaves. However, fear of and hostility toward blacks in late antiquity did not mean that Africans or other dark-skinned...

... rived almost entirely from Great Britain. The indigenous inhabi­ tants had been obliterated by the Spanish conquerors, and most traces of the Spaniards were destroyed in turn by the British. The African slaves were actively discouraged from retaining or develop­ ing their native culture, their religion...

... to the village of Washington, six miles east of Natchez, to sell sweet potatoes. There he met a fellow-slave, Sambo. While they were talking by the roadside, one of the most respected physicians in the Natchez region came on horseback in their direction. After watching him a moment Prince said to the other slave...

... of progress and modernity. Yet even as a weapon of antiracism, the specter of comparisons traded on the Levant’s incompleteness.15 Just prior to the U.S. entrance into World War II, in 1939, Adam Clay- ton Powell Sr., the African American pastor of Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church, embarked...

... show that Dom Alfonso had begun to understand the gravity of the slave trade, its human costs, and its effects on African societies. He later became apprehensive of the trade and questioned the morality of handing over his prisoners and enemies to the Portuguese. Specifically, his 1526 letter...