Black African
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heritage. Afro-Jordanians speak
Arabic
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and mostly adhere to
Islam
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. Most Afro-Jordanians are concentrated in the Southwest parts of
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
.
Many Afro-Jordanians are descendants of slaves, trafficked via the
Red Sea slave trade
The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, Arab slave trade, or Oriental slave trade, was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking Africans from Sub-Saharan Africa in the African continent to slavery in the A ...
slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
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slavery in the Ottoman Empire
Chattel slavery was a major institution and a significant part of the Ottoman Empire's economy and traditional society.
The main sources of slaves were wars and politically organized enslavement expeditions in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, S ...
(1517–1918).
In 1921, former Ottoman Jordan was transformed into the
Emirate of Transjordan
The Emirate of Transjordan (), officially the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921,1926 Slavery Convention as a member of the
League of Nations
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, was obliged to investigate, report and fight slavery and slave trade in all land under direct or indirect control of the British Empire.
Slavery in Transjordan was legally abolished by the British in 1929.
Red Sea slave trade
The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, Arab slave trade, or Oriental slave trade, was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking Africans from Sub-Saharan Africa in the African continent to slavery in the A ...