Slavery and Human Rights

Sudanese Slavery from Wikipedia

Islam and Slavery from Wikipedia

Sudanese Human Rights from Wikipedia

American Anti Slavery Group Sudan Page

Amnesty International on the Sudan

Allegedly, there is still some slave taking going on in Sudan. I am not taking sides here, but only passing on what I have read. I am not there.

Slavery has a history thousands of years old in this region. When European Anti-Slavery crusaders worked to wipe the trade out in the 19th Century, the locals could not fathom it. Slavery had been such a part of existence in that part of the world for so long. (Obviously I am not condoning it, but trying to state a fact of history. It was there and not easily going away).

Samuel Baker, Col. Gordon and others worked to wipe out the trade fresh from the end of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Baker had a hard time and Gordon had some success. You were just not going to wipe it out completely.

The human rights record still leaves something to be desired. Something tells me that is the case for a good chunk of the world though. I am sure some Sudanese say the same of the United States. (Didn't mean to reduce this to a schoolyard "did not, did too," but by golly that is what it feels like sometimes).