Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An
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Lewis, Bernard
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Fiction
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1989
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Oxford University Press, USA
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English
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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.