I'm black too!
I'm black too!
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Africans in India worked as soldiers, sailors, traders, bureaucrats, clerics, bodyguards and concubines. Almost all of these Africans were Muslims, and many were slaves conscripted into the slave armies of Indian Muslim rulers. As early as 1459, the Muslim king of Bengal maintained an army of 8,000 African slaves. In 1530, a Habshicommander and army defended the west coast settlement of Daman against the Portuguese.