Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic | Chris Gratien

141.     Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu Notions of racial difference played an important role in the Atlantic slave trade and have left a long legacy well after the slave trade was abolished during the nineteenth century. Yet centuries earlier, an Islamic scholar from Timbuktu had formulated an argument against the enslavement of individuals based on race or skin color. In this episode, Chris