--- jrdavis <from_alamut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Very true but so far no one has mentioned the
> routine castration of male aftican slaves expecially
> after the Zanj slave rebellion (where african slaves
> rebelled in southern Iraq and formed their own
> revolutionary state for about 20 years before being
> destroyed).
>
> jim
>
I did not know that.
The book on Pushkin's African great-grandfather I have asserts that there were small African communities in the Caucasus up until WWI, brought there through the Ottomans. I have no idea how accurate the claim is though.
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