Comparative Analysis of the institutions of enslavement in East Africa and in the Americas, as seen through the works of Frederick Cooper (Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa) and Eugene D. Genovese (“Materialism and Idealism in the in the History of Negro Slavery in the Americas”).

Abstract: Determining if something is better after a comparison is a job for philosophers and theologians. Slavery in the Americas and slavery in East Africa, shaped by their own respective cultures, people, and economies, developed with sharp differences and characteristics. Islam and Christianity laid the foundation of culture, the master-slave relationship, and the money machine driving the entire process contributed to the distinctions between the two systems of enslavement. (October 2022 – unpublished)