TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ennaji,Mohammed
AU  - Graebner,Seth
TI  - Serving the master: slavery and society in nineteenth-century Morocco 
SN  - 0333754778
AV  - HT1346 E6
PY  - 1999///, �1998
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Morocco
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Concubinage
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes glossary; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Slaves in Society -- Daily Life -- Family and Sexuality -- Escape * Emancipation -- Kidnapping -- Enslavement -- The Makhzen's Slaves -- Abolition
N2  - Serving the Master uses a unique wealth of hitherto unstudied sources to paint a practical, compelling picture of the experiences of slaves in nineteenth-century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji brings to life a rich panoply of figures, with court cases, travel accounts, and archival documents, demonstrating the cruelty of an institution whose benign features some writers have overemphasized. In contrast to slavery in the Americas, he argues that only a fine line separated the fluid categories of slave and free, and he reveals how slaves' dependence on their masters paralleled free Moroccans' dependence on patrons for survival and social mobility. No other book on slavery in the Islamic world has treated the Muslim west, and no other book has examined the variety and extent of sources that Ennaji does in such a context here. Muslim Slavery offers a clear, readable history that tells the devastating story of slavery in this region, and uses slavery's gradual disappearance in this century as a metaphor for Morocco's move into modernity
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