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[QUOTE]Originally posted by abdulkarem3: [QB] THE POWHATAN REMNANTS By: HELEN CAMPBELL [QUOTE]The Spanish enslaved their Turkish, Portuguese, [b]Arab and Moorish[/b] captives, to use them as galley slaves. These prisoners also did slave labor at Cartagena in the West Indies.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The African slave trade began with the importation of Black slaves into Portugal in the Fifteenth Century. In 1452 Pope Nicholas Vth issued a bull "Dum Diversas" which granted the King of Portugal permission to conquer and reduce to perpetual slavery all [b]"Saracens[/b] and pagans and other infidels and enemies of Christ" in West Africa. In 1488, King Ferdinand sent a hundred [b]Moorish[/b] slaves to Pope Innocent VIII, who passed them on as gifts to his cardinals and courtiers![/QUOTE]This is who white european christians had said they shipped as slaves to the americas to become known as today as african americans. What is the modern day arabs take on that. from an article in " The Arab World ", Nadim Makdisi [QUOTE] During the 18th century and the first decade ofthe 19th century, [b]a number of arabs, captured by the europeans, were brought to America and sold as slaves. nadim makdisi, "arab adventures in the new world," The Arab World(july 1966) pg 94 [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]An occasional arab was not an unusual figure on the plantations of Georgia and South Carolina Adele Younes, " The Arabs who followed Columbus," The arab world, parts I and II(march & august 1966) pg. 95[/QUOTE]they came from as far as Oman, andalus, mauritania and morocco. let us not forget that groups such as the kunta of mauritania(who are quraishi)berabish,brakna,trarza,and the shuwa arabs all who live in areas of west africa and are amongst those who were targeted. there are too many stories to write. i suggest a good read is The unknown arabs: clear, definitive proof of teh dark complexion of the original arabs and the arab origin of the so-called african americans by tariq berry [/QB][/QUOTE]
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