Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Subtitle: An Historical Enquiry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 11, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195053265
First sentence: In 1842 the British Consul General in Morocco, as part of his government's worldwide endeavor to bring about the abolition of slavery or at least the curtailment of the slave trade, made representations to the sultan of that country asking him what measures, if any, he had taken to accomplish this desirable objective.