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Sale of a child-slave (1872), painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. A rich Turkish man examines a naked boy, before buying him. The history of slavery in the Muslim world was throughout the history of Islam with slaves serving in various social and economic roles, from powerful emirs to harshly
An article in the Middle East Quarterly in 1999 reported that slavery is endemic in Sudan. [72] Estimates of abductions during the Second Sudanese Civil War range from 14,000 to 200,000 people. [73] During the Second Sudanese Civil War people were taken into slavery; estimates of abductions range from 14,000 to 200,000.
This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
British East Africa: Slavery abolished. [166] 1905 French West Africa: Slavery formally abolished. Though up to one million slaves gain their freedom, slavery continues to exist in practice for decades afterward. 1906 China: Slavery abolished beginning on 31 January 1910.
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)
Transported upon the slave ship Clotilda. Cuffy (died 1763), was an Akan man who was captured in his native West Africa, taken to work in the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana, and in 1763 led a revolt of more than 2,500 slaves against the colonial regime. Today, he is a national hero in Guyana. [44]
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.
922: Arab traveler Ahmad Ibn Fadlan recorded funeral sacrifice of a female slave of dead Viking ruler in today's Kazan in Russia. [21] c. 978: Theodore the Varangian and his son John were killed during human sacrifice in pagan Kiev. 980: Four children were sacrificed according to archeological findings during building of Trelleborg fortress in ...