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The trans-Saharan slave trade, established in Antiquity, [20] continued during the Middle Ages. Following the early 8th-century conquest of North Africa, Arabs, Berbers, and other ethnic groups ventured into Sub-Saharan Africa first along the Nile Valley towards Nubia, and also across the Sahara towards West Africa.
Early records of the trans-Saharan slave trade come from ancient Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC. [95] [96] The Garamentes were recorded by Herodotus as engaging in the trans-Saharan slave trade and enslaving cave-dwelling "Ethiopians" (Ethiopian being a Greek term for Black as opposed to being from the region of Ethiopia), or ...
Early records of trans-Saharan slave trade come from ancient Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BCE, who records the Garamantes enslaving cave-dwelling Egyptians in Sudan. [20] [21] Two records of Romans accompanying the Garamantes on slave raiding expeditions are recorded - the first in 86 CE and the second a few years later to Lake ...
Morocco was a center of the Trans-Saharan slave trade route of enslaved Black Africans from sub-Saharan Africa until the 20th-century, as well as a center of the Barbary slave trade of Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates until the 19th-century. The open slave trade was finally suppressed in Morocco in the 1920s.
Examples of Arabic slave trades are : Al-Andalus slave trade (between the 8th and the 15th century) Trans-Saharan slave trade (between the mid-7th century and the 20th century) Indian Ocean slave trade (between the antiquity and the early 20th-century) Comoros slave trade (from an unknown time until the mid 19th-century)
The slave trade from sub-Saharan Africa continued openly until the mid 19th-century. Over 28 million subsaharans were enslaved in North Africa over the course of the trans-saharan slave trade. European slave trade
Trans-Saharan trade routes, from Marrakesh to the Awlil salt mines on the west, to Darb Al Arbain on the east . The trans-Saharan trade routes were among the most significant trade networks in pre-colonial Africa. These routes connected West Africa with North Africa and the Mediterranean, facilitating the exchange of gold, salt, ivory, and slaves.
The trade routes of the slave trade in medieval Africa. Inside the borders of present-day Mali, slavery existed for many centuries in the Mali Empire and the surrounding communities and kingdoms. Slavery continued to exist after the fall of the Mali Empire being a significant part of the economies of Tuareg , Mandé , and Fula communities.