الصنائع و الحرف في ممالك السودان الغربي و أثر العامة فيها حتى نهاية القرن العاشر الهجري

Abstract EN

The society in this country worked with families, clans, and tribes, living in villages and regions, practicing their daily lives, according to certain customs and patterns accustomed to them imposed by the geographical environment as well as inherited traditions, as it was dominated by the system of classes, and members of each class adhere to certain rituals and customs and patterns These classes are presented according to their dominance in the march of life are : the first ruling family, princes and senior feudal leaders, the second clergy, and the third general class, the broad class of the general public, and is distinguished from the previous two layers in the way of living and dress, and represents Slaves are the last layers of society, promised by the crushed classes that always work to devote themselves to the service of the masters and submit to them, and we find in some references to the inclusion of slaves within the public class who as we will point out later were captured in wars or sold in slave markets or who were born to slave parents Because the general class is the broad class in society, which is responsible for carrying out all economic activities in the society, as the direct workforce, this bourgeois class of tradesmen or proletariats represented the trades and professions such as blacksmiths, builders, tailors, and women.

Yen butchers, hunters, peasants, auctioneers, brokers, porters, workers and crafts related to the means of entertainment, and domestic servants.