Mohammad found the custom existing among the pagan Arabs; he minimised the evil, and at the same time laid down such strict rules that but for the perversity of his followers, slavery as a social institution would have ceased to exist with the discontinuance of the wars in which the Moslem [sic] nation were at first involved.
Watumwa waliuzwa kwenye minada ya wazi. Watumwa wakiwa rasilimali isiyo na thamani, na wanao-tambulikana kidogo sana kisheria, posta masta alikuwa wakala aliyetumiwa mara nyingi kuwakamata watumwa wanaokimbia na matangazo yalichapishwa kwenye vyombo vya habari vya kiserikali.