Re: Re: Islam's Black Slaves

2001-05-18 Thread ALI KADRI
Indeed, thanks for bringing this back. That is what I meant. Slaves were not involved in a commodity producing labour process like that of the plantation style, especially one leading to or involving surplus extraction. This, of course, changed as a result of Portuguese, Spanish and English

Re: Re: Re: Islam's Black Slaves

2001-05-18 Thread Brad DeLong
Indeed, thanks for bringing this back. That is what I meant. Slaves were not involved in a commodity producing labour process like that of the plantation style, especially one leading to or involving surplus extraction. ??? I see the lack of plantation-style labor to produce staples for a