Geopolitical caution spared Turks and Moors from chattel enslavement in colonial law
Evidence
West African slaves and Indians became the irredeemable subjects of Christianity, exempt from its assimilationist and universalist ideology in the context of English colonialism. Turks and Moors, however, escaped this fate, very likely because England was not in a position to challenge the Ottoman Empire and various North African Muslim powers. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 210
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Geopolitical weakness toward the Ottoman Empire spared Turks and Moors from enslavement (similarity 0.95)
- English law enslaved non-Christians but spared Turks and Moors out of imperial caution (similarity 0.90)
- Some colonial figures warned forced conversion would provoke unrelenting hostility. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial exposure to metropolitan freedom undermined Britain’s own imperial rule. (similarity 0.79)