African slave trade
The African slave trade was a trade in slaves and, like most of the world, has carried on for thousands of years in Africa. The first three main routes were passed through the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, which became part of the Arab slave trades. During and after the Age of Exploration, African slaves became part of the Atlantic slave trade, from which comes the modern, Western and American type of slavery. Despite being against the law, slavery continues in all parts of the world, including Africa. In Mauritania, people could not be punished for having slaves until August 2007.[1]
African Slave Trade Media
Slaves for sacrifice at the Annual Customs of Dahomey – from The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa, 1793
Malagasy slaves (Andevo) carrying Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar
Kushite prisoners of war watched over by Egyptians, waiting to be deported into Egypt. Relief from the tomb of Horemheb in Saqqara.
Christian prisoners are sold as slaves in a square in Algiers, Ottoman Algeria, 1684
Black Zanjs captured in a slave raid being marched to a slave market in the Arab world
A "servant-slave" woman in Mogadishu (1882–1883)
