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{{quotation|In evaluating the African slave trade, there was another "[[Middle Passage]]" often neglected by most scholars—the [[Arab slave trade]]. It is often forgotten that the Arab slave trade in [[East Africa]] and the slave trade from [[North Africa]] into Inner West Africa was protracted and ruthless. Sometimes the [[Arabs]] from the north who were [[Moslem]] enslaved [[Africans]] in the south who were also Moslems, thereby violating one of the most basic customs of their faith—that no Moslem should enslave another Moslem. [http://www.africawithin.com/clarke/part30f10.htm] }}
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{{quotation|In evaluating the African slave trade, there was another "[[Middle Passage]]" often neglected by most scholars—the [[Arab slave trade]]. It is often forgotten that the Arab slave trade in [[East Africa]] and the slave trade from [[North Africa]] into Inner West Africa was protracted and ruthless. Sometimes the [[Arabs]] from the north who were [[Moslem]] enslaved [[Africans]] in the south who were also Moslems, thereby violating one of the most basic customs of their faith—that no Moslem should enslave another Moslem. [http://www.africawithin.com/clarke/part30f10.htm] }}