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Abdel Kader Kane: Moorish Abolitionist (1770s-1800s)

“Abdel Kader Kane was a Moorish leader of the Futa Toro region in Northern Senegal is renowned for having resisted the slave trade.” Source: The Untold Story of African Resistance Against the Slave Trade “In the 18th century, Senegambia was bitterly…

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Portuguese Explorers took every opportunity of kidnapping Moors on Saharan

“During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the great inducement that brought Europeans to the West Coast of Africa was not merely the trade in gold, ivory, camwood, and pepper, but it was first and foremost, slaves. Liberia, however, for…

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