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"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, Bruce S. Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial conquest, and which has continued to orient inter-African relations ever since"--

History of civilization --- History of Africa --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- West Africa --- Black race --- Race noire --- Islam et civilisation --- Blacks --- Islam and culture --- Slavery --- History. --- Noirs --- Esclavage --- Histoire --- Culture and Islam --- Culture --- Islamic civilization --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Negro race --- Race --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black persons --- Black people --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Enslaved persons