... an important component of the Islamic commercial system; even though they were seldom used in agriculture, they still were imported to large numbers for artisan labor and for domestic and military service. Despite the practices of the Quran and the Hadith slaves had no legal rights. "Islamic slavery as many observers reported, was a commodity of believers, held to be equal", but ... another human's life and entire existence. Granted many of the slave soldiers gained emancipation and power through the system, the derived facts are the same: People were taken often from a foreign land, pl...

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