"Colour was not only an issue for the Christian Europeans, but was also of importance in the Islamic world which, in the fifteenth century, came more often into contact with black people than the Christian Europeans did. Whereas the offspring of a black mother and white father was admitted to full equality, ‘the full-blooded Negro generally remained an outsider in Muslim society’, and prejudice was an issue although the barrier did not exclude black people from high office."
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Jeremy Black, A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History 2011
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