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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.
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) Red Sea slave trade (between the antiquity and the mid-20th-century) Libyan slave trade (started in the 7th century, ongoing)
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.
William Hepworth Dixon noted slaves in various tasks Jerusalem of the 1860s, such as in his depiction of Jaffa Gate, when he mentioned "Yon negro dozing near his mule is a slave from the Upper Nile, and belongs to an Arab bey who lets him out on hire", and the servants in the coffee houses: “Enter this coffee house, where the old sheikh is ...
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 ...
Saharan trade routes circa 1400, with the modern territory of Niger highlighted. Unlike Ghana, Mali was a Muslim kingdom since its foundation, and under it, the gold–salt trade continued. Other, less important trade goods were slaves, kola nuts from the south and slave beads and cowry shells from the north (for use
A sketch of stone town showing the old fort and palace from the year 1871 to the year 1875. Zanzibar Stone Town was a port in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Arab-Swahili slave traders and their captives along the Ruvuma River in Mozambique. The Muslim world expanded along trade routes, such as the silk route in the 8th century. As the power and ...