Captain Theophilus Conneau records a conversation with Ama-De-Bella, brother of the king of Futa Jallon, “I desired him to tell me if these wars of devastation commanded by the Holy Book were not more frequently instigated by interest in the great profits his Mahommetan countrymen reaped from the results. After a minute’s consideration he replied with some humor that “the Mahometans were no better than Christians: the one stole, the other held the bag…”
Thus, Africa continued as a storehouse of slaves, with the Holy Book to aid and abet…(Lamin Sanneh, The Crown and The Turban, Westview Press, London, 1997, p, 50).
