Arab slave trade
c. 700-1900 · Event
Across the Sahara and the Indian Ocean, an older and longer trade than the Atlantic one moves millions from East and West Africa to the Middle East over twelve centuries.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa
More from Slavery & Abolition
- Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (1833)
- Frederick Douglass (1818)
- Enslaved Africans sold at Lagos (1444)
- Tubman's Underground Railroad missions (1850)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded (1787)
- 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' (1852)
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850)
Around 700
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Viking Age (793)
- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Muhammad's first revelation (610)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)