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The Role of Islam in the Abolition of Slavery and in the Development of British Capitalism
2012
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
West Indian scholars have overlooked the role played by the Muslim leadership in West Africa in bringing an end to the transatlantic trade in Africans. The jihād movements in West Africa in the late eighteenth century gave political unity to West Africa challenging the collaboration of European trade in Africans with the pagan slave traders. West Indian historiography, while emphasizing European abolitionist movements, ignores the Islamic unity (tawhīd) of humankind, which brought together many
doi:10.35632/ajiss.v29i1.326
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