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So, the short answer is that we were told a lie
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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

So, the short answer is that we were told a lie by late 19th- and early 20th-century...

So, the short answer is that we were told a lie by late 19th- and early 20th-century orientalists who suggested that... that slavery and Islam were coterminous, and this was part of a very motivated attempt both to denigrate African societies and Muslim societies

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So, the short answer is that we were told a lie
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by late 19th- and early 20th-century orientalists
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who suggested that... that slavery and Islam
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were coterminous, and this was part
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of a very motivated attempt both to denigrate
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African societies and Muslim societies.
Duration
22 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:25
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
And, and to monopolize claims on freedom - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
And, and to monopolize claims on freedom
So that Islam and African society - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
So that Islam and African society
And so the way in which we approached - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
And so the way in which we approached
It was polemical, and people refer - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:20
It was polemical, and people refer
Whereas once you start to scratch the surface - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:21
Whereas once you start to scratch the surface
And that he himself had freed any person - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
And that he himself had freed any person
So what I was doing is trying to tell a historical story - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:20
So what I was doing is trying to tell a historical story
This revolution in the Senegal River Valley - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
This revolution in the Senegal River Valley
Clerics traditionally in this region were people - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Clerics traditionally in this region were people
They taught themselves to do it, because they said, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
They taught themselves to do it, because they said,
First the slave trade, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:27
First the slave trade,
Even if we end up selling out pretty hard - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Even if we end up selling out pretty hard
But it's also one that, that is seeking - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
But it's also one that, that is seeking
This is an Atlantic revolution - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
This is an Atlantic revolution
But it's particularly regrettable - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:25
But it's particularly regrettable
And that they were articulated in terms - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And that they were articulated in terms
They were thought through with respect - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
They were thought through with respect
When groups come to power that are opposed - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:18
When groups come to power that are opposed
He said the policy of Europeans in Africa - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
He said the policy of Europeans in Africa
And so the... if you want to just - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
And so the... if you want to just