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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Nodnarb: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [QB]Interesting map! But according to the slave trades and historic texts, there seems to be no evidence of slaves from West Africa ever being in Egypt. No slaves from the Arab world were ever linked from the Trans-Sahara trade. [i]"Except for the Zandj (black slaves) from lower Iraq, [b]no large body of blacks historically linked to the trans-Saharan slave trade existed anywhere in the Arab world ... The high costs of slaves, because of the risks inherent in the desert crossing, which would have not permitted such a massive exodus...[/b] In this connection, it is significant that in the Arabic iconography of the period, the slave merchant was often depicted as a man with a hole in his purse. Until the Crusades the Muslim world drew its slaves from two main sources: Eastern and Central Europe (Slavs) and Turkestan. The Sudan only came third. "[/i] - [URL=https://books.google.com/books?id=tw0Q0tg0QLoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Africa+from+the+seventh+to+the+eleventh+century&hl=en&ei=PJiCTrX2MJS2tge0opDyAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false]web page[/URL] Africa from the Seventh to Eleventh Century, UNESCO, 1988 If it was due to slavery it most likely came from East Africa and not West Africa as that was where most of the Arab slave trade was taking place, but even so I doubt the lineage you talk of is even due to that. [/QUOTE]Interesting. I have read that the usual practice was to castrate the male slaves, so any gene flow the slave trade would have contributed would probably come from the women. But wouldn't most of them have been concubines for rich elites? I would be surprised if these slaves had that much impact on the general Islamic populations. [/qb][/QUOTE]Indeed. But like I said more autosomal work needs to be done to get a fuller picture imo. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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