Were Arab nations involved with slave trade?

Answer 1

The Arab slave trade refers to the practice of slavery in West Asia, North Africa and East Africa. The trade mostly involved East Africans and Middle Eastern peoples (Arabs, Berbers, Persians, etc.), while others such as Indians played a relatively minor role in comparison. Also, the Arab slave trade was not limited to people of certain color, ethnicity, or religion. In the early days of the Islamic state—during the 8th and 9th centuries—most of the slaves were Slavic Eastern Europeans, (called saqaliba and Mamluk), people from surrounding Mediterranean areas, Persians, Turks, other neighbouring Middle Eastern peoples, and peoples from the Caucasus Mountain regions (such as Georgia and Armenia) and parts of Central Asia, Berbers and various other peoples of often predominatly Caucasoid origins as well as those of Black African origins. Later, toward the 18th and 19th centuries, slaves were increasingly mainly coming from East Africa. According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by pirates and sold as slaves between the XVI and XIX century. These slaves were captured mainly from seaside villages from Italy, Spain, Portugal and also from more distant places like France or England.

The 'Oriental' or 'Arab' slave trade is sometimes called the 'Islamic' slave trade, but religion was hardly the point of the slavery, Patrick Manning, a professor of World History, states. Also, this term suggests comparison between Islamic slave trade and Christian slave trade. Furthermore, usage of the terms "Islamic trade" or "Islamic world" implicitly and erroneously treats Africa as it were outside of Islam, or a negligible portion of the Islamic world. Propagators of Islam in Africa often revealed a cautious attitude towards proselytizing because of its effect in reducing the potential reservoir of slaves.

Answer 2

Zanzibar was a famous island-town in East Africa first established by Arab slave-traders.

In medieval times, the Arabs also used to raid European towns for white slaves. There are still ruins of an old Arab slave-trading fortress on the coast of Yugoslavia -- from there slavers used to raid Italian towns and villages and ship the captives off to Arab cities to work as slaves in the mines and brothels.

Answer 3

Arab nations along the coast of the Mediterranean....the Barbary Pirates..were notorious slavers, capturing and selling both Africans and whatever Europeans they could till the US Navy put a stop to it in the 1790's.....that line in the Marine Corps hymn.about to the shores of Tripoli? That's what that refers to....

Arab slave traders bought hundreds of thousands of African slaves from African rulers and transported them north across the Sahara to Algeria and Egypt till the Brits and the French stopped it in the 1840's......as was mentioned, Saudi Arabia didn't get around to outlawing slavery till 1965; Arab slave trader built most of the ports of East Africa and exported millions of Africans to Arabia and India for 400 years, right up to the 1940s.....

Answer 4

I really have continuously type of assumed that many slaves were given scammed into slavery. evaluate thoughts used in jap Europe perfect now. maximum in all probability those procedures for determining to purchase human beings to willingly get onto the boat were used every time a probability back then. it really is one element. us of a might want to were a marketplace, yet i don't think of truly American businesses were trapping African natives. The British and the Arabs actually had the lock on extracting human beings from the continent of Africa. How demanding might want to that is immediately thinking the version in defense force sophistication between uk and Nigeria?

Answer 5

yes arab nations provided most of the slaves for the romans, and still take part in slavery today although these days it's called arranged marriage

Answer 6

Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery in 1965.

Answer 7

they are the ones that introduced the slave trade to africa and they are the ones that intoduced it to the americas.