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To: Thomas M. who wrote (339)	1/8/2002 2:18:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 6945

Short quotes out of context are really your stock in trade, aren't they, Thomas? The author wrote, . Europeans did not invent slavery, which had been practiced all over the world for millennia, including in Africa and the Middle East, but one of their 'contributions to civilization,' so to speak, was to systematize it and industrialize it on an enormous and unprecedented scale. He thus clearly implied that the systematic African Slave Trade was a European invention, as opposed to the small-scale, local practices that preceded it. This implication is false and does an injustice to the trading systems of the Arab world. The trans-Saharan slave trade was a large and thriving affair for hundreds of years before the Portuguese arrived. As I said, check out Hugh Thomas' history for a good recap.