"To the south of the Nile [Niger] there is a Negro people called Lamlam. They are unbelievers. They brand themselves o…"

"For years, Beijing’s defenders insisted that testimonies from Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tibetan survivors were fabr…"

"Money is a new and terrible form of slavery, and like the old form of personal slavery it demoralizes both slave and …"

"Shafi‘i's treatment of the issue is slightly different. Speaking of grown-up Zoroastrian or polytheist women taken in…"

"We have also seen that according to the prevalent view of the traditionists, a female polytheist must be converted to…"

"The prevalent view of the jurisprudents is that sexual intercourse of any kind is not permissible with Zoroastrian or…"

"If Zoroastrian and idolatrous women are taken prisoner, they are coerced into Islam; if they embrace it, sexual relat…"

"There is nothing wrong in a man having sexual relations with his Zoroastrian slave-girl."

"I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to do it, to possess another slave by purchase, i…"

"We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-p…"