kzzl;5670994 said:
I think niggas should hold off on the whole " we moors" thing. Black americans are the descendants of lost tribes. Focus on finding out YOUR ancestry. Your tribal heritage. If its even possible for us to go back that far.
It could lead you to find that your ancestors were victims of islamization at the hands of moor invasion/slave trade. Them muslims had them chain gangs popping centuries before the white folks got put on. You'd just be trading one devil for another.
Also, it seems that the term moor was mainly used to describe the non-european. A generalization. They didnt care to take into the account the vast amount of diversity in africa for the most part. The word could even be considered deragatroy for some. Like me calling all hispanics mexican.
If the shoe fits where it. But for some of us, it might be deeper than that.
More misleading information... You may not be doing it intentionally; maybe that is what you were taught in school. But what you said here is not true and misleading.
For one,
slavery was not always whips, chains, and degradation of a people. That is
American slavery. American slavery was very unique.
African and Muslim slavery was vastly different. Allow me to give you an excerpt out of the book "Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas" by Sylviane A. Diouf. There is a section in this book talking about Islamic law and African slavery, I will type up a few excerpts:
"African slaves were used as porters, soldiers, palace guards, domestics, and concubines but mostly as agricultural laborers. They either lived with their owner's family and worked partly for their master and partly for themselves or were settled in slave villages to work as sharecroppers. In these arrangements, their status resembled that of the European serf, as
historian John Thorton points out: "African slaves were often treated no differently from peasant cultivators, as indeed they were the functional equivalent of free tenants and hired workers in Europe." In addition, "slaves were often employed as administrators, soldiers, and even royal advisors, thus enjoying great freedom of movement and elite lifestyles." The absolute chasm that existed between the slave and the slaveholder in the Americas was unknown in Africa. Several European travelers who were familiar with the American system expressed surprise at the "leniency" of the African model."
"The adoption of Islamic law had a decisive effect on slavery in West Africa, for it significantly reduced the causes for enslavement while at the same time encouraging manumission. Islam neither condemned nor forbade slavery but stated that enslavement was lawful under only two conditions: if the slave was born of slave parents or if he or she had been a "pagan" prisoner of war."
"The application of Islamic law concerning slavery had a profound effect on manumission. The Koran makes ample provisions for the freeing of slaves, as a mark of piety or charity or for expiation. Therefore, the manumission rate in the Islamic world was systematically higher than anywhere else. Conversion to Islam was a prerequisite for emancipation, though it did not result automatically in liberation. However, once a Muslim, the slave could use channels of liberation defined by Islamic law: ransom, self-redemption, exchange, or manumission."
ok i dont feel like typin any more but yeah, there are alot more differences that could be listed but maybe this will intrigue you and encourage you to do some of your own research.
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