Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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Yes, there's that part of it too.
It's both.
But there's also a real concern about the souls of enslaved men and women in the way that the Church of England say, the Presbyterians in North America really were not much concerned with that at all.
It's really the evangelical movements of the mid-18th century that make that an issue
In the Anglophone world, in the British Empire, in the middle of the 18th century.
I just want to say very quickly, Rob, is that recent scholarship on the cultural and moral thought in the Islamic world is really recovering.
Not just a set of beliefs, but a set of movements, really, to prevent Islamic men and women from being enslaved by either Christians or pagans.
And especially in parts of West Africa, the Senegal River Valley, the upper Gambia.
You think about where today Mali is, western Nigeria today.
There were Islamic revivals that aimed in part to prevent the export of Muslim slaves to Christian slave traders who were operating along the coasts.
So we're learning more about what anti-slavery looked like in other places, but I would just emphasize in that particular instance that it is an anti-slavery that's about protecting the freedom of members of the faith rather than the notion that slavery in and of itself needs to be overthrown.
Well, you're not.
I mean, this gets into a very complicated subject that we can only be very brief about, I guess.
But
Under Islamic law, under all sort of systems of Islamic law, Muslims are not supposed to enslave other Muslims.
Some Muslim powers, especially in the southern, in the Sudan, in the southern shores of the Sahara, would take the view that some African people's
who said they were Muslim were not really Muslim.
And so therefore it could be taken as slaves because they weren't true Muslims, right?
And so what does it mean to be Islamic and sort of how do you measure that if they're not fully recognizable, then maybe they're... But the notion of enslavement of infidels, but Muslims not enslaving other Muslims is a very powerful notion.
in the Mediterranean world.
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