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The Arab slave trade
Main article: Arab slave trade
See also: Slavery (Ottoman Empire) and Islam and slavery
Historians say the Arab slave trade lasted more than a millennium.[39] Slaves in the Arab World came from many different regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa (mainly Zanj),[40] the Caucasus (mainly Circassians),[41] Central Asia (mainly Tartars), and Central and Eastern Europe (mainly Saqaliba).[42]
Ibn Battuta tells us several times that he was given or purchased slaves.[43] Slaves were purchased or captured on the frontiers of the Islamic world and then imported to the major centers, where there were slave markets from which they were widely distributed.[44][45][46] In the 9th and 10th centuries, the black Zanj slaves may have constituted at least a half of the total population in lower Iraq.[47] At the same time, many tens of thousands of slaves in the region were also imported from Central Asia and the Caucasus.[48]
Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, and under Omani Arabs in the 19th century as many as 50,000 slaves were passing through the city each year.[49][50] Some historians estimate that between 11 and 18 million African slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert from 650 AD to 1900 AD.[11][51][52]
Central and Eastern European slaves were generally known as Saqaliba (i.e., Slavs).[53] The Moors, starting in the 8th century, also raided coastal areas around the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean, and became known as the Barbary pirates. It is estimated that they captured 1.25 million white slaves from Western Europe and North America between the 16th and 19th centuries.[54][55] |
