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5.0 out of 5 stars
A most interesting work,
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This review is from: Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in 19th Century Morocco (Hardcover)
THis wonderful short work delves deep inside the use of Slaves in Morrocco during the 19th century. using many texts and personal insights the author weaves a convincing web of the many factes of slavery. From chapters on family life to sexuality, including chapters on the eslavement and kidnapping of the slaves and explaining the differences between practices in rural areas and urban this is a fascinating work. The author is encumbered by a concern not to offend so he slices through the subject with zeal, revealing how pregnant female slaves were beaten, explaining that abortion was more common then thought and startling the reader with his descriptions of the African women with 'bodies seemingly designed for pleasure'.
Making use of a veriety of sources from palace records to individual letters, common accounts and colonial writings, this scholarship far surpases most work on the subject. By far the most illuminating account of slavery in Muslim soceities, although a narrow work it serves a smirror not only for other scholarship on the subject but also for the apologists who regard slavery in Muslim societies as a noble ideal. A must read. Seth J. Frantzman |
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Serving the Master by Mohammed Ennaji (Hardcover - March 22, 1999)
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