Since ahmad baba points out that islamic law permits a muslim to raid and enslave non-muslims, do you think that the non-muslim mandinka (mandingoes) would have considered it justifiable to enslave ayuba, since he was a muslim?

Since Muslims felt that enslaving non Muslim Mandinka was lawful, Mandinka could have well reasoned enslaving Ayuba, a Muslim, would have been just reciprocal and fair (what goes around, comes around).

by creating a labor shortage that pushed the continent toward a market economy

one of the major compromises in the constitutional convention was between the small states and big states. the small states wanted each state to have the same number of representatives in congress. the big states wanted representation based on population.