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"Slavery" African Style (573 words) |
 | Haratin are in the minority but they are well represented in the government. |
| The interviews that I made, which Jacobs refers to, was in the poorest section of the desert town of Bootilimit where Haratin and Bidan live together, often in the same raggedy old tents in the sand. |
| Haratin and Bidan often intermarry and it's not an issue. |
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Haratin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (575 words) |
| Haratin (also transliterated Haratins, Harratins or Haratine, etc, singular Hartani) is a Saharan / Sahelian word of obscure origin applied mainly in Mauritania, southern Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Senegal and Mali to largely sedentary oasis-dwelling fl populations speaking either Berber or Arabic dialects. |
| The populations called Haratine appear to be a mix of indigenous fl populations that became Berberised and descendants of free sub-Saharan African slaves, and/or the children of said slaves and the lighter skinned Arab or Berber ruling class. |
| Aziz Abdalla Batrán, "The 'Ulamá of Fas, Mulay Isma'il, and the Issue of the Haratin of Fas," in John Ralph Willis, ed., Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa, vol.i, Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement, 125-59, London: Frank Cass, 1985. |
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