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Research by Paul E. Lovejoy gives strong evidence that prohibitions in Islamic law against enslaving Muslims were quite effective in West Africa during the Atlantic Slave trade, because the proportion of Muslim slaves in the Americas is far too low compared to what is known about the proportion of Muslims in Atlantic Africa.

Say all of Atlantic Africa south to Kongo are converted to Islam by 1450. Will the Atlantic Slave Trade happen?
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