Black slaves held roles from poet to ruler in Islamic society.

Evidence

Hunwick also mentions the enormous variety of occupations of Black slaves in Islamic society: household slaves, revenue officers, poets, musicians, professional soldiers, eunuchs, rulers and colonial administrators, scholars, and concubines, to suggest the range. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1787

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the flat image of Islamic slavery as a monolithic pigmentocracy, tying into Robinson’s wider thesis about the variety of Black positions — a counterexample to the reader’s working image of the Islamic slave world.