In addition, the recorded mortality rate was high -- this was still significant even as late as the nineteenth century and was remarked upon by western travelers in North Africa and Egypt. ... By the ninth century slave armies were in use across the whole of the Islamic Empire. ... By the fifteenth century black military slaves were being favored with the use in battle of firearms. Slave troops in Tunisia in the seventeenth century even included cavalry, and the Sultan of Morocco is recorded as having an army of 250,000 black slaves. ...

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