FORGOTTEN SLAVERY: THE ARAB-MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE
by Bob Koigi
Over the years, global focus and discourse on slavery has concentrated on the Trans-Atlantic trade that featured American and European merchants. One other trade has however remained largely ignored, and at times has even been treated as a taboo subject, despite being a key component of African history owing to the devastating impact it has had on the continent, its generations and its people’s way of life.
The Arab-Muslim Slave Trade
by David Gakunzi
Lifting the taboo
African Lives Don't Matter In Arab Nations
Nigerian Brotha
Recalling Africa’s harrowing tale of its first slavers – The Arabs – as UK Slave Trade Abolition is commemorated
Written byNew African
The 25th March was, as usual, commemorated as the day Britain officially abolished its Slave Trade in 1807. But how many recall that Arab slavers were the first, and last, in modern times to ship millions of Africans out of the continent as slaves? And that Arab slavers preferred more African women to men? We revisit our archives for this insightful reminder by George Pavlu.
Why don't they teach about the Arab-Muslim slave trade?
Larry Elder
As for America’s annual Black History Month, actor Morgan Freeman spoke for many during this 2005 exchange with CBS’s Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes”:
How are Gulf countries dealing with slavery?
By Monir Ghaedi
Despite having officially outlawed slavery, Arab states in the Gulf region have downplayed the legacy of repression and racism faced by minorities. But some countries are taking the first steps to address the past.
ARAB VIEWS OF BLACK AFRICANS AND SLAVERY
by John Hunwick
Black Africans were the earliest type of slave known to Arabs, and were the latest imported into the Arab-Islamic Middle East. One of the very first black Africans known to have been in slavery in the Arabian peninsula, and to have become one of the first converts to Islam., was the Abyssinian called Bill [b. Raba˛], who was owned and then freed by Abü Bakr, the Prophet Mu˛ammad's father-in-law and later successor, to whom he gave his freed slave, who then accepted the Prophet's message and was given the position of muezzin - "caller to prayer" by Mu˛ammad. Soon after North Africa was occupied by Arab Muslim armies in the late 7th century, black Africans were traded over the Sahara, and bought by Arab merchants as slaves - a practice which continued down to the early 20th century.
Blackface: The ugliness of racism in Arab media | The Listening Post (Feature)
Blackface, a practice that keeps appearing in modern media, was a supposed entertainment device from a bygone era. It features white or light-skinned people caricaturing those of African descent, by darkening their faces with theatrical make-up. While across much of the western world it no longer features in mainstream art or entertainment, in the Middle East, you do not have to go back far to find examples. Blackface and caricatured depictions of black people are still seen in the media, and in most cases, they are often not even seen as offensive. Blackface can be found particularly in Egypt....
The Dark Untold History The Arabs Have Tried To Erase
The Erasure of Black History in American Education (Black Culture)
The Arab history of anti black racism predates European anti black racism by several centuries. The early Islamic empire exhibited all the characteristics of anti black racism, and blacks suffered the lowest form of bondage. Europeans took photographs of chained black African slaves in Arab slave trading vessels on the East Coast of Africa in the eighteen eighties.
East Africa's forgotten slave trade
by Silja Fröhlich
Over several centuries countless East Africans were sold as slaves by Muslim Arabs to the Middle East and other places via the Sahara desert and Indian Ocean. Experts say it is time for this to be discussed more openl
The Indian Ocean Slave Trade was Likely Bigger than the Atlantic Trade
Smithsonian Channel
In the 17th century, the Indian ocean slave trade was arguably on a bigger scale than the Atlantic slave trade. The hub of this vile industry was in modern-day Tanzania, an area that specialized in three things: ivory, spices, and slaves.