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
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- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded (1787)
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850)
- Douglass's Narrative published (1845)
- West Africa Squadron (1808)
- Baptist War in Jamaica (1831)
Around 700
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- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Muhammad's first revelation (610)
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- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)