Where there any African slaves in the past centuries taken to Asia and the middle east??

Question

If so.....why are there no traces of them today.....as can be seen from the African American or Black British people.

Answer 1

Asians also faced involuntary deportation as slaves. But many also volunteered to take work in other parts of the Pacific rim. Chinese and Indian workers can be found all over the Pacific. Most of these laborers faced cruel conditions, with no chance of returning home. So if you don't want to call that slavery, go ahead, it was inhuman either way.

Answer 2

well, I don't know about the rest of Asia but I'm from middle east and I can tell you that there are "traces" of them.
More than 1400 years ago Islam started becoming the main religion in the middle east, and Islam carried equity with it and fought slavery. You can find out that some of the greatest ancient Islamic heroes were black or non Arabs.
I don't want to take so much so here are some examples: my neighbor is a black guy (and he's a native) and my home country has many colors starting from African black to Blondie and blue eyes.

Answer 3

Slavery in the east

Europe did not have a monopoly on slavery. Muslim traders also exported as many as 17 million slaves to the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Slave narratives offering an African perspective on the slave trade contributed to the growing anti-slavery movement.

Some historians say that between the years 1500 and 1900, five million African slaves were transported via the Red Sea, the Sahara and East Africa to other parts of the world.

In Africa, unknown numbers of people - according to some estimates at least four million - died in wars and forced marches before ever being shipped to another continent.

Within central Africa, the slave trade led to huge population upheavals. Coastal tribes fled slave-raiding parties, and captured slaves were redistributed to different regions in Africa.

Slave dealing also contributed to the expansion of powerful West African kingdoms such as Mali and Ghana.

Answer 4

all over the golf Reagen of the middle east you can find traces of black blood related to the old days slavery. the descendants are a live monument to the slave trade. (by the way, there are blacks that are "working" as slaves in the middle east right now)
you will not find them in Asia, as there was no one to "buy " them at the time, and the colonials enslaved local Asians. some of them has been brought to south Africa. and they are nowadays the "cape malaise" of south Africa.

Answer 5

Asian Indians are just as black as africans, and their facial features look like arabs... I think long time ago during the slavery, arab people went to southest asia to trade goods, maybe they brought some black slaves over there to help them transport the goods. Over the centuries people had mixed marriages and turned out to be those people in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Answer 6

to the middle east yes .. to Asia .. no mention of that .. coz there were many asian slaves taken to the west or to the middle east the same as black africans ..

Answer 7

I'm from the middle east (Kuwait to be more spacific) and yes there are Africans in Kuwait, there are also in Sudi Arabia, and the UAE, and Bahrain, but you are right about Asia I have never seen an Asian with African roots!

Answer 8

no but asian slaves where brought to South Africa work on the mines, thats y we have traces of asians people in SA, they meny lovate in Lesotho