The Arab slave trade refers to various periods in which a slave trade has been carried out under the auspices of Arab peoples or Arab countries. The Arab slave trades are often associated or connected to the

history of slavery in the Muslim world The history of slavery in the Muslim world was throughout the history of Islam with slaves serving in various social and economic roles, from powerful emirs to harshly treated manual laborers. Slaves were widely forced to labour in irrigatio ...

. The trans-Saharan slave trade relied on networks of both Arabs, Berber, and African merchants.

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Examples of Arabic slave trades are : *

Trans-Saharan slave trade The trans-Saharan slave trade, also known as the Arab slave trade, was a Slavery, slave trade in which slaves Trans-Saharan trade, were mainly transported across the Sahara. Most were moved from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa to be sold to ...

(between the mid-7th century and the early 20th century) **

Libyan slave trade Slavery in Libya has a long history and a lasting impact on the Libyan culture. It is closely connected with the wider context of slavery in North Africa and trans-Saharan slave trade. Since ancient history, the territory of modern Libya was a ...

(started in the 7th century, ongoing) * Indian Ocean slave trade (between antiquity and the early 20th-century) ** Comoros slave trade (from an unknown time until the mid 19th-century) ** Zanzibar slave trade (from an unknown time until the early 20th-century) * Red Sea slave trade (between the antiquity and the mid-20th-century)

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