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The African slave trade was where African people were traded as slaves across the world.

The first main route passed through the Sahara.

After the Age of Exploration, African enslaved people became part of the Atlantic slave trade, from which comes the modern, Western type of slavery.

Despite being against the law, slavery continues in all parts of the world, including Africa. In Mauritania slavery was not made illegal until August 2007.

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  • African slave trade

    The main slave routes in medieval Africa

  • Zanzslgwch

    A Zanj slave gang in Zanzibar (1889)

  • Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar engraving

    Malagasy slaves (Andevo) carrying Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar

  • Slave Market, Mono version

    Nubians waiting to be sold at a slave market in ancient Egypt.

  • Purchase of Christian captives from the Barbary States

    Release of Christian slaves by payment of ransom by Catholic monks in Algiers in 1661.

  • Burning of a Village in Africa, and Capture of its Inhabitants (p.12, February 1859, XVI) - Copy

    Burning of a Village in Africa, and Capture of its Inhabitants (p.12, February 1859, XVI)

  • Christian slavery in Barbary (1859)

    Christian slavery in Barbary.

  • Arabslavers

    Black Zanjs captured in a slave raid being marched to a slave market in the Arab world.

  • Servant or slave woman in Mogadishu

    A 'servant-slave' woman in Mogadishu (1882–1883)

  • Slaves in Ethiopia - 19th century

    Slaves in Ethiopia, 19th century.

  • Slave market Khartoum 19th c

    A slave market in Khartoum, c. 1876

  • Old slave, in Cameroon (IMP-DEFAP CMCFGB-CP010 2)

    Elderly female slave, c. 1911/15, owned by Njapundunke, mother of the Bamum king Ibrahim Njoya

  • 1743 Homann Heirs Map of West Africa ( Slave Trade references ) "Guinea" - Geographicus - Aethiopia-hmhr-1743

    Homann Heirs map of the slave trade in West Africa, from Senegal and Cape Blanc to Guinea, the Cacongo and Barbela rivers, and Ghana Lake on the Niger River as far as Regio Auri (1743)

  • Costumes de Differents Pays, 'Marchand d'Esclaves de Goree' LACMA M.83.190.334

    A slave trader of Gorée, c. 1797

  • TipputipPortrait

    Zanzibari slave trader Tippu Tip owned 10,000 slaves.

  • The Door of No Return in Ouidah, November 2007

    The Door of No Return in Ouidah. Memorial to the slave trade through the port of Ouidah.

  • Slaves ruvuma

    Swahili-Arab slave traders and their captives along the Ruvuma River in Mozambique, 19th century

  • Tobacco cultivation (Virginia, ca. 1670)

    African slaves working in 17th-century Virginia, by an unknown artist, 1670

  • A Brazilian family in Rio de Janeiro by Jean-Baptiste Debret 1839

    Jean-Baptiste Debret's conception of enslaved persons in Brazil (1839)

  • VillageCayor-1821

    Slave trade along the Senegal River, kingdom of Cayor

  • African Slave Trade

    Slave trade out of Africa, 1500–1900

  • Slavezanzibar2

    Photograph of a slave boy in Zanzibar. 'An Arab master's punishment for a slight offence.' c. 1890.

  • Different cowries

    Cowrie shells were used as money in the slave trade

  • ManillaOkhapos

    Two slightly differing Okpoho Manillas as used to purchase slaves

See also

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