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Race and Slavery in the Middle East (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Throughout much of history, human bondage has been an acceptable institution to a large part of mankind. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that the world-wide movement for abolition began slavery’s long and sometimes painful decline to the status of a generally recognized evil. Racism, particularly that directed toward black Africans, is not as ancient as slavery, but, by the nineteenth century, these two unsavory features of human existence had become inexorably coupled. It is almost impossible to discuss one completely without, in some way, coming to grips with the other....

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