We have all heard of Turkish harems, beautiful Circassian slave and large black eunuchs. Image dEpinal, elegant and tolerable, tinged of a delicate eighteenth somewhat languid eroticism, reflecting cultural differences dune, dun orientalism of good quality. It comes out of something else, dune deliberate exploitation and well set on the African continent (and a little, comparatively, of North LEUROPE): it comes out of desclaves nursery in some countries dAfrique of dhommes convoys and hungry women through African deserts, forced labor in mines or copper salt in the latifundia which were practiced on a large scale monoculture of lassèchement unhealthy marshes, all activities are major consumers of human cattle. Systematic castration centers of every male, too, with over 60% mortality! Louvrage is well-documented, well-argued, a large dhistorien work, almost boring (javoue have some flew over some passages, such as the chapter on Africas slow penetration by Arab and Berber merchants). Very referenced, even if direct evidence is rare but there. Complemented by a very solid bibliography.
