AFAS 222 Lecture 27: African Intellectual Heritage,University of Arizona(p27)
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Three ways one could become a slave. Slaves were allowed to use pretty as they pleases and were not treated with cruelty or contempt. Mm claims as adherents toe only people who have any form of civil polity or bond of social organization. Mm has built and occupies the largest cities in the heart of the continent. Different in government and general regulations of society and amusements of the peoples. Its easy for those who do not understand the language to depreciate the merits. Futah toro influenced timbuktu and its region - said to be a man of extraordinary endowments. Islam able to produce half military and half religious geniuses. No christian community self-reliant and independent of black individuals. Black mm communities are independent, self-reliant, productive dominant supporting etc. Mm found its black individuals at home in a state of freedom and independence whose teachers were brought to them. Brought self respect because they chose to convert.