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Slave relationships in Africa have been transformed through four large-scale processes: the trans-Saharan slave trade, the Indian Ocean slave trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and the slave emancipation policies and movements in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Between 1400 and 1900, close to 20 million individuals were captured from Africa during four sizable and mostly simultaneous operations orchestrated to trade enslaved people: Trans-Saharan, Red Sea (Arab), Indian Ocean, and Trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved people.
In Africa specifically four substantial slave trades have existed throughout history, the Trans-Saharan, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and arguably the most impactful the Transatlantic slave trade. The African Slave trade forced the migration of over 20 million Africans from the years 1400-1900.
transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
The continent of Africa is one of the regions most rife with contemporary slavery. [1] Slavery in Africa has a long history, within Africa since before historical records, but intensifying with the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trade [2] [3] and again with the trans-Atlantic slave trade; [4] the demand for slaves created an entire series ...
African states played a key role in the trade of slaves, and slavery was a common practice among Sub Saharan Africans even before the involvement of the Arabs, Berbers and Europeans. There were three types: those who were enslaved through conquest, instead of unpaid debts, or those whose parents gave them as property to tribal chiefs.
The Nile Valley and the coast of Northeast Africa were sources of slaves for ancient Egypt, and by the colonial period dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries, the slave trade had become a major activity shaping political, economic, and social structures.
Slavery has long existed in human societies, but the transatlantic slave trade is unique in terms of the destructive impact it had on Africa. How did it shape the fortunes of an entire...
In Africa, slavery was hardly an economic venture of any importance before the external slave trade began, in which many African collaborators of European slavers took part and benefited. Overviews on the history of slavery in Africa have treated it and its multiple ramifications as part of a general history or anthropology of Africa.
This chapter provides a brief review of some of the key written sources concerning the presence of slaves in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa between c. 500-1500 CE, and what these can tell us about prevailing systems of enslavement.