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  2. Slavery in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Both of these investigations noted that African slaves were transported from Africa to the Muslim Arab world, where chattel slavery were still legal. The Trans-Saharan slave trade was combatted by the colonial authorities, who nominally controlled the territories of the Sahara desert from the late 19th-century onward. Both the French, Spanish ...

  3. Trans-Saharan slave trade - Wikipedia

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    During times of conquest and after winning battles, the ancient Nubians were taken as slaves by the ancient Egyptians. [16] The Garamantes relied heavily on slave labor from sub-Saharan Africa. [17] They used slaves in their own communities to construct and maintain underground irrigation systems known to Berbers as foggara. [18]

  4. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    Slavery was practiced among all classes. slaves were owned by upper and middle classes, by the poor, and even by other slaves. [122] From São Paulo, the Bandeirantes, adventurers mostly of mixed Portuguese and native ancestry, penetrated steadily westward in their search for Indians to enslave.

  5. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The 7th to 13th centuries in West Africa were a period of relatively abundant rainfall that saw the explosive growth of trade, particularly across the Sahara desert, and the flourishing of numerous important states. [156] The introduction of the camel to the western Sahel was a watershed moment, allowing more merchandise to move more easily. [107]

  6. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    Some historians assert that as many as 17 million people were sold into slavery on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa, and approximately 5 million African slaves were bought by Muslim slave traders and taken from Africa across the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert between 1500 and 1900. [90]

  7. Indian Ocean slave trade - Wikipedia

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    Many other people were imported as slaves into the region, besides Zanj. [28] A Zanj slave gang in Zanzibar (1889) Historian M. A. Shaban has argued that the rebellion was not a slave revolt, but a revolt of blacks (zanj). In his opinion, although a few runaway slaves did join the revolt, the majority of the participants were Arabs and free Zanj.

  8. Slavery in antiquity - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Egypt, slaves were mainly obtained through prisoners of war. Other ways people could become slaves was by inheriting the status from their parents. One could also become a slave on account of his inability to pay his debts. Slavery was the direct result of poverty.

  9. Slavery in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Ethiopia stated to the Temporary Slavery Commission (1923–1925) that while slavery in Ethiopia was still legal, it was in a process of being phased out: that the slave trade was dying, that it was prohibited to sale, gift or will slaves, and that every child born to a slave after 1924 will be born free; that former slaves were to be sent back ...