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Slavery and immigration

Robin Blackburn
  20th April 2002  —  Issue 73
The same number of slaves were taken from sub-Saharan Africa to the Islamic world as crossed the Atlantic. But they were a luxury, not a means of production

Islam’s black slaves

Ronald Segal

(Atlantic Books ?20) 

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By Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn teaches at Essex University. He is the author of Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us (Verso). Anatole Kaletsky is an economic commentator. He is a partner of Gavekal Research, a financial analysis company

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