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[44] [45] In Mecca, Arab women were sold as slaves according to Ibn Butlan, and certain rulers in West Africa had slave girls of Arab origin. [46] [47] According to al-Maqrizi, slave girls with lighter skin were sold to West Africans on hajj. [48] [49] [50] Ibn Battuta met an Arab slave girl near Timbuktu in Mali in 1353. Battuta wrote that the ...
The Arab slave trade was most active in West Asia, North Africa (Trans-Saharan slave trade), and Southeast Africa (Red Sea slave trade and Indian Ocean slave trade), and rough estimates place the number of Africans enslaved in the twelve centuries prior to the 20th century at between six million and ten million.
The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, [1] Arab slave trade, [1] or Oriental slave trade, [1] was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking Africans from the African continent to slavery in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East from antiquity until the mid-20th century.
Examples of Arabic slave trades are : Trans-Saharan slave trade (between the mid-7th century and the 20th century) Indian Ocean slave trade (between antiquity and the early 20th-century) Comoros slave trade (from an unknown time until the mid 19th-century) Zanzibar slave trade (from an unknown time until the early 20th-century)
Following the 7th century Muslim conquest of Egypt and the 8th-century Muslim conquest of North Africa, Arab Muslims began leading trade expeditions into Sub-Saharan Africa, first towards Nubia, and later across the Sahara into West Africa. Much of this contact was motivated by interest in trans-Saharan trade, particularly the slave trade.
The British Anti-Slavery Society actively campaigned against the slavery and slave trade in the Arabian Peninsula from the conclusion of World War II until the 1970s, and particularly publicized Saudi Arabia's central role in 20th-century chattel slavery within the United Nations, but their efforts was long opposed by the lack of support from ...
Starting in the 13th century, the Arab slave trade flourished in the region and the Gulf of Guinea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The slave trade was greatly expanded in the 15th century when Portugal established a number of trading posts in Guinea, purchasing exporting, and kidnapping captives as part of the Atlantic slave trade . [ 2 ]
The Tanzimat anti-slavery reforms were directed toward the public slave trade rather than the institution of slavery as such: by the late 19th and early 20th century, the sale of slaves had often moved from public slave markets to the private homes of the slave traders; the purchase of slaves, who were often bought as children, had come to be ...