How did contact with the Muslim world affect the African slave trade?
a. Despite the Muslim acceptance of slavery and its widespread use in Islamic society outside of Africa, Muslims generally refused to accept black slaves.
b. Because of the Muslim emphasis on equality of all believers, early Muslim rulers suppressed the slave trade.
c. Muslims forced southern Africans to give up slavery.
d. Slavery was unknown in African society until the Muslims introduced it.
e. Slavery became a more widely diffused phenomenon and the slave trade developed rapidly.
Answer: E