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Thetrans-Saharan slave trade, also known as theArab slave trade,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} was aslave trade in which slaveswere mainly transported across theSahara. Most were moved fromsub-Saharan Africa toNorth Africa to be sold to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations; a small percentage went in the other direction.^[9]

Estimates of the total number ofblack slaves moved from sub-Saharan Africa to theArab world range from 6 to 10 million, and the trans-Saharan trade routes conveyed a significant number of this total, with one estimate tallying around 7.2 million slaves crossing the Sahara from the mid-7th century until the 20th century when it was abolished.^[10][11] TheArabs managed and operated the trans-Saharan slave trade,^[12] althoughBerbers were also actively involved.^[13]

Alongside sub-Saharan Africans,Turks,Iranians,Europeans and Berbers were among the people traded by the Arabs, with the trade being practisedthroughout the Arab world, primarily inWestern Asia, North Africa, East Africa, and Europe.^[14]

Records of slave trading and transportation in the Sahara date as far back as the 3rd millennium BC during the reign of the Egyptian kingSneferu who crossed the fourth cataract of theNile into what is today modernSudan to capture slaves and send them north.^[15] These raids for prisoners of war, who subsequently became slaves, were a regular occurrence in the ancient Nile Valley and Africa. During times of conquest and after winning battles, the ancientNubians were taken as slaves by the ancient Egyptians.^[16]

TheGaramantes relied heavily on slave labor from sub-Saharan Africa.^[17] They used slaves in their own communities to construct and maintain underground irrigation systems known toBerbers asfoggara.^[18]Ancient Greek historianHerodotus recorded in the 5th century BC that the Garamantes enslaved cave-dwelling Ethiopians, known asTroglodytae, chasing them with chariots.^[19]

In the earlyRoman Empire, the city ofLepcis established aslave market to buy and sell slaves from theBantu African interior.^[9] In the 5th century AD,Roman Carthage was trading in black slaves brought across the Sahara.^[20] The empire imposedcustoms tax on the trade of slaves.^[9][20] Black slaves seem to have been valued as household slaves for their exotic appearance.^[20] Some historians argue that the scale of slave trade in this period may have been higher than medieval times due to the high demand for slaves in the Roman Empire.^[20] However the slave trade through the Sahara in antiquity may have been small and rare as Saharan trade didn't reach large dimensions until theArabs and Berbers introduced large numbers of camels into the desert.^[21][22]

The Ancient Garamantian caravan trade route between the coast of Tripolitania across the Sahara toLake Chad transported foremost circus animals, gold,cabochon and raw material for food processing and perfume manufacture, but also slaves; the African slave trade was however likely limited prior to the Islamic period, and African slaves appeared to have been few in the Roman Empire, where they were viewed as exotic luxury slaves.^[23]

Paul Lovejoy estimates that around 6 million black slaves were transported across the Sahara between the years 650 AD and 1500 AD.^[11] The trans-Saharan slave trade, established inAntiquity,^[20] continued during theMiddle Ages. Following the early 8th-centuryconquest of North Africa, Arabs, Berbers, and other ethnic groups ventured intoSub-Saharan Africa first along theNile Valley towardsNubia, and also across theSahara towards West Africa. They were interested in thetrans-Saharan trade, especially in slaves, as there was a constant demand for slaves in the eastern Arab nations andConstantinople.^[24] The Muslim slave traders distinguished themselves from the peoples on the other side of the Sahara, referring to these African populations asZanj orSudan meaning "black".^[25]

Arabs would routinely acquire slaves through violent raiding, followed by capturing them and sending them on dangerousforced marches across the Sahara to slave markets where they would be treated aschattel i.e. aspersonal property that can be bought and sold.^[26] In North Africa, the main slave markets were inMorocco,Algiers,Tripoli andCairo. Sales were held in public places such assouks. During the era of theFatimid Caliphate (909–1171), the majority of slaves were Europeans taken along European beaches during conflicts.^[14]

Aside from raiding, slaves could also be obtained by purchasing them from local black rulers. The 9th century Arab historianYa'qubi states:

They [the Arabs] export black slaves...belonging to the Mira,Zaghawa, Maruwa, and other black races who are near to them and whom they capture. I hear that the black kings sell blacks, without pretext and without war.^[27]

Indeed, few African rulers would resist the slave trade, while many chiefs would become middlemen in the trafficking, rounding up members of nearby villages to be sold to visiting merchants.^[28] The 12th century Arab geographeral-Idrisi noted that Sub-Saharan Africans would also participate in slave raiding stating that:

The people of Lemlem are perpetually being invaded by their neighbors, who take them as slaves... and carry them off to their own lands to sell them by the dozens to the merchants. Every year great numbers of them are sent off to the WesternMaghreb.^[27]

Al-Idrisi would also describe the different methods Muslim merchants would use to enslave blacks, recording that some would "steal the children of the Zanj usingdates...lure them with dates and lead them from place to place, until they seize them, take them out of the country and transport them to their own countries".^[25] In 1353, the Berber explorerIbn Battuta would record accompanying a trade caravan to Morocco which carried 600 black female slaves who were to be used as domestic servants andconcubines.^[29][24] When Battuta visited the ancient Africankingdom of Mali he recounted that the local inhabitants vied with each other in the number of slaves and servants they had, and was himself given a slave boy as a "hospitality gift."^[30]

The routes taken by slave caravans transporting slaves depended on their destination. Slaves headed to Egypt would be carried by boat down the Nile and slaves headed to Arabia would be sent to ports on theRed Sea such asSuakin andAssab.^[22] Slaves headed to North Africa would have to take the Saharan trade routes which had been in use since around 1000 BC. These include routes such as the ones fromTripoli–Ghadames–Ghat–Hoggar–Gao connecting modern-day Libya to Nigeria, the Tripoli-Fezzan-Bornu route, connecting Libya to areas of what are todayChad,Niger, andCameroon, and the east–west route connecting Egypt toGhana,Mali, andSonghai.^[22] Kanem–Bornu–Zawila was another route to North Africa as theKanem–Bornu Empire in the eastern part ofNiger was an active part of the trans-Saharan slave trade for centuries, and the trade formed the basis of the empire's prosperity.^[22]

Passage through the Sahara required the expertise of ethnic groups whose lifestyles were uniquely adapted for survival in scorching, arid environments, namely the local Berber tribes and the foreignBedouins fromArabia.^[21] For example, theTuareg and others who are indigenous to Libya facilitated, taxed and partly organized the trade from the south along thetrans-Saharan trade routes. Various nomadic peoples played critical roles as guards, guides, and camel drivers. As a result, they were granted autonomy and treated as allies by governments of North Africa.^[21] Oases were vital waystations for caravans and those such asAwjila, Ghadames, andKufra in Libya allowed both north–south and east–west travel.^[31] Even with expert help the passage could still prove deadly to merchants and slaves.^[32] Sometimes whole caravans of thousands of people could disappear without a trace.^[32]

The goods exchanged in the trans-Saharan slave trade varied. In the 10th century, the Muslim scholar Mutahhar ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi described the trade between the Islamic world and Africa as consisting of food and clothing being imported into Africa while slaves, gold, and coconuts were exported out of Africa.^[25] Later, the 16th century Andalusian writerLeo Africanus wrote that traders from Morocco would bring horses, European cloth, clothing, sugar, books, and brass vessels to Sudan in order to exchange them for slaves,civets and gold.^[33] According to Africanus, thesultan of Bornu would accept payment for slaves only in horses, with an exchange rate of up to twenty slaves for one horse.^[33]

The range of tasks given to slaves was varied and included servile labor utilized for "irrigation,pastoralism,mining,transport,public works,proto-industry, andconstruction."^[34][35] In general black slaves were used as laborers, servants andeunuchs.^[36] Some female slaves could be used for labor, but most would be used for domestic chores and concubinage.^[37] Eunuchs, who were around seven times more expensive than non-castrated males could be used as harem guards, administrators, tutor, secretaries, commercial agents, and even concubines.^[38] Due to strictures within Islamic law, slaves would not usually becastrated within Muslim territory and therefore would be castrated before being sent across the Sahara. Sometimes slaves were castrated after purchase in North African slave markets.^[35] Conditions within the mining industry were notoriously harsh especially the salt mines ofBasra where tens of thousands of black slaves toiled in extremely miserable conditions living on insufficient amounts of food.^[36] This poor treatment led to the bloodyZanj Rebellion or "black revolution".^[36] Ya'qubi records that both male and female slaves were employed in the copper mines ofUpper Egypt.^[36] TheQarmatian Republic of eastern Arabia is said to have employed 30,000 blacks slaves to perform all difficult labor.^[36] Some black slaves served in the military forces of North Africa.^[37][39] For example, theZirid dynasty used black slaves imported from Sudan via Zawila.^[33]

In some instances,Christians in Africa would acquiesce to Muslims demands that they be provided with slaves. In 641 AD during the treaty known as theBaqt was signed establishing an agreement between the Nubian Christian state ofMakuria and the new Muslim rulers of Egypt, in which the Nubians agreed to give Muslim traders more privileges of trade in addition to sending 442 slaves every year to Cairo as tribute.^[22][40] This treaty remained intact for 600 years all while the slave trade within Nubia continued unimpeded.^[22]

In theMuslim culture of the Middle Ages, blackness became increasingly identified with slavery.^[41] This was justified by appeals to a specific interpretation of the biblical story ofCurse of Ham that positedHam had been cursed byNoah in two ways, the first, the turning of his skin black, and the second, that his descendants would be doomed to slavery.^[41] Muslim slave traders would use this as a pretext to enslave blacks, including black Muslims.^[41] In the late 14th century, a black king ofBornu wrote a letter to the sultan of Egypt complaining of the continual slave raids perpetrated by Arab tribesmen, which were devastating his lands and resulting in the mass enslavement of the black Muslim population of the region.^[42] InAl-Andalus, the area of medievalIberia under Islamic control, black Muslims could be legally held as slaves inslavery in Al-Andalus.^[43] This all occurred despite the orthodoxMuslim jurist position that no Muslim, regardless of race, could be enslaved.^[36] Even as late as the 19th century, many of the common people in Islamic society still believed that enslavement based on skin color, rather than based on religion, was approved by the religious laws of Islam.^[41]

In 1416, al-Maqrizi told how pilgrims coming fromTakrur (near theSenegal River) brought 1,700 slaves with them toMecca. In the late 16th century, access to slaves in the areas of the formerSonghai Empire in West Africa were cut off due to the anarchy in the area caused by theMoroccan armies' invasion of Songhai headed byal-Mansur.^[24] This necessitated the substitution of the former Songhai route with theBenghazi–Wadai route and others through Sudan.^[24] After Europeans had settled in theGulf of Guinea, the trans-Saharan slave trade became less important.^{[citation needed]}

Arabs were sometimes made into slaves in the trans-Saharan slave trade.^[44][45] In Mecca, Arab women were sold as slaves according toIbn Butlan, and certain rulers in West Africa had slave girls of Arab origin.^[46][47] According toal-Maqrizi, slave girls with lighter skin were sold to West Africans onhajj.^[48][49][50] Ibn Battuta met an Arab slave girl near Timbuktu in Mali in 1353. Battuta wrote that the slave girl was fluent in Arabic, from Damascus, and her master's name was Farbá Sulaymán.^[51][52][53] Besides his Damascus slave girl and a secretary fluent in Arabic, Arabic was also understood by Farbá himself.^[54] The West African states also imported highly trained slave soldiers.^[55]

Under theSaadi dynasty, Morocco's sugar industry was dependent on Sub-Saharan African slave labor.^[56] According to Paul Berthier, the need for slave labor on Moroccan sugar plantations was a major reason for the 16th centurySaadian invasion of the Songhai Empire.^[56]

In Central Africa during the 16th and 17th centuries, slave traders continued to raid the region as part of the expansion of the Saharan and Nile River slave routes. It is estimated that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, 1.4 million slaves were forced to make the trek through the Sahara^[10] Captives were enslaved and shipped to the Mediterranean coast, Europe, Arabia, the Western Hemisphere, or to the slave ports and factories along the West and North Africa coasts or South along the Ubanqui and Congo rivers.^[58][59]

1.2 million slaves are estimated to have been sent through the Sahara in the 19th century.^[10] In the 1830s, a period when slave trade flourished,Ghadames was handling 2,500 slaves a year.^[60] Even though the slave trade was officially abolished inTripoli by theFirman of 1857, this law was never enforced, and continued in practice^[61] at least until the 1890s.^[62]In Tripoli,G. F. Lyon recorded that from 4,000 to 5,000 slaves were processed annually with raids to areas like Kanem-Bornu providing sources of captives.^[31] As a witness to the behavior of the slave dealers, Lyon described their behavior in Libya:

None of the owners were ever without their whips which were in constant use...no slave dares to be ill or unable to walk, but when the poor sufferer dies the master suspects there must have been "something wrong inside" and regrets not having liberally applied the usual remedy of burning the belly with a red hot iron" thus reconciling to themselves their cruel treatment of these unfortunate creatures.^[63]

Other 19th-century European explorers recorded their perilous experiences traveling through the Saharan Desert alongside slave caravans. The explorerGustav Nachtigal reported finding numerous bones at desert springs that had run dry.^[32] Nachtigal estimated that for every one slave that successfully arrived at the market three or four had either died or escaped.^[32] Cold could also kill in the desert as the explorerHeinrich Barth relayed a story that the vizier of Bornu had lost forty slaves in a single night in Libya.^[32] A British account described one hundred skeletons.^[32]

By 1858, the British consul in Tripoli had recorded that more than 66% of the value shipped across the Sahara was made up by slaves.^[24] The British Consul inBenghazi wrote in 1875 that the slave trade had reached an enormous scale and that the slaves who were sold inAlexandria andConstantinople had quadrupled in price. This trade, he wrote, was encouraged by thelocal government.^[62] By the mid 19th century, it is possible that nearly 10,000 slaves were being transported to North Africa yearly.^[24] The Muslim historianAhmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri bemoaned the "unlimited enslavement of blacks" in 19th century North Africa "where men traffic them like beasts or worse" and where the majority of slaves were Muslims who should have been exempt from slavery because of their religious status.^[41]

Slaves were marched in shackles from across the Sahara via the Trans-Saharan slave trade to the Nile, while dying from exposure and swollen feet.^[64]

Adolf Vischer wrote in an article published in 1911 that: "...it has been said that slave traffic is still going on on the Benghazi–Wadai route, but it is difficult to test the truth of such an assertion as, in any case, the traffic is carried on secretly".^[65] AtKufra, the Egyptian travellerAhmed Hassanein Bey found out in 1916 that he could buy a girl slave for five pounds sterling while in 1923 he found that the price had risen to 30 to 40 pounds sterling.^[66] Another traveler, the Danish convert to IslamKnud Holmboe, crossed theItalian Libyan desert in 1930, and was told that slavery is still practiced in Kufra and that he could buy a slave girl for 30 pounds sterling at the Thursdayslave market.^[66]

According toJames Richardson's testimony, when he visited Ghadames, most slaves were fromBornu.^[67] According to Raëd Bader, based on estimates of the Trans-Saharan trade, between 1700 and 1880 Tunisia received 100,000 black slaves, compared to only 65,000 entering Algeria, 400,000 in Libya, 515,000 in Morocco and 800,000 in Egypt.^[68]

After the establishment of theBritish and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 to fight slave trading in the Mediterranean,Ahmad I ibn Mustafa,Bey of Tunis, agreed to outlaw exporting, importing, and selling slaves in 1842, and he made slavery illegal in 1846.^[70] In 1848,France outlawed slavery inAlgeria.^[70]

Despite the British outlawing the slave trade in 1833, Turco-Egyptian troops ofMuhammad Ali of Egypt continued to export approximately 20,000 slaves annually from Sudan. Merchant princes such asAl-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, appointedkhedive in 1873, controlled trade inBahr el Ghazal and the routes toKordofan andDarfur.^[1]

In 1929, the Sanusi center ofKufra in the Sahara was pointed out as a center of the (Trans-Saharan) slave trade.^[71]

The Italians reported to theAdvisory Committee of Experts on Slavery in the 1930s that all former slaves inItalian Tripolitania -slavery in Libya was since long formally abolished - were free to leave their former Arab owners if they wished, but that they stayed because they were socially depressed; and that in the oases of Cyrenaica and the interiour of Sanusiya, the Trans-Saharan slave trade had been erased in parallel with Italian conquest, during which 900 slaves had been freed in the Kufra slave market.^[72]

In 1936, the report to theAdvisory Committee of Experts on Slavery from the French, British and Italian stated that they all surveyed the water sources along the caravan routes in the Sahara to combat the Trans-Saharan slave trade from Nigeria to North Africa.^[73] In 1937, the report to theAdvisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, both France and Spain assured that they actively fought the slave raids from the Trans-Saharan slave traders, and in 1938, the French claimed that they had secured control over the border areas alongside Morocco and Algeria and effectively prevented the trans-Saharan slave trade in that area.^[73] Slavery was not abolished inMauritania until 1981.^[70]

In the 1980s, during theSecond Sudanese Civil War, there was a resurgence of the Sudanese slave trade under theNational Islamic Front and groups such as theBaqqara andRizeigat.^[74]

Since the beginning of theLibyan Civil War of 2011, that saw the overthrow ofMuammar Gaddafi's regime byNATO-backedanti-Gaddafi forces, Libya has been plagued by instability and migrants with little cash and no papers have become vulnerable. Libya is amajor exit point for African migrants heading to Europe. TheInternational Organization for Migration (IOM) published a report in April 2017 showing that many of the migrants fromWest Africa heading to Europe are sold as slaves after being detained bypeople smugglers or militia groups. African countries south of Libya were targeted for slave trading and transferred to Libyan slave markets instead. According to the victims, the price is higher for migrants with skills like painting and tiling.^[75][76] Slaves are oftenransomed to their families and in the meantime untilransom can be tortured, forced to work, sometimes to death and eventually executed or left to starve if they can't pay for too long. Women are often raped and used assex slaves and sold tobrothels and private Libyan clients.^{[75][76][77][78]} Many child migrants also suffer from abuse andchild rape in Libya.^[79][80]

After receiving unverified CNN video of a November 2017 slave auction in Libya, a human trafficker toldAl-Jazeera (a Qatari TV station with interests in Libya) that hundreds of migrants are bought and sold across the country every week.^[81]Migrants who have gone throughLibyan detention centres have shown signs of many human rights abuses such as severe abuse, includingelectric shocks, burns, lashes and even skinning, stated the director of health services on the Italian island ofLampedusa toEuronews.^[82]

A Libyan group known as the Asma Boys have antagonized migrants from other parts of Africa from at least as early as 2000, destroying their property.^[83] Nigerian migrants in January 2018 gave accounts of abuses in detention centres, including being leased or sold as slaves.^[84] Videos of Sudanese migrants being burnt and whipped for ransom, were released later on by their families on social media.^[85] In June 2018, the United Nations applied sanctions against four Libyans (including a Coast Guard commander) and two Eritreans for their criminal leadership of slave trade networks.^[86]

According to professor Ibrahima Baba Kaké, there were four main slavery routes to North Africa, from east to west of Africa, from theMaghreb to theSudan, fromTripolitania to central Sudan and from Egypt to the Middle East.^[87] Caravan trails, set up in the 9th century, went past the oasis of the Sahara; travel was difficult and uncomfortable. Since Roman times, long convoys had transported slaves.

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