A Arab ethnicity should not be confused with nonArabicspeaking ethnicities that are also native to the Arab world. Not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Arab slave trade Wikipedia. The Arab slave trade was the practice of slavery in the Arab world, mainly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Southeast Africa and Europe. This barter occurred chiefly between the medieval era and the early 2. The trade was conducted through slave markets in these areas, with the slaves captured mostly from Africas interior. Scope of the tradeedit. A 1. 9th century European engraving of Arab slave trading caravan transporting African slaves across the Sahara. The Arab slave trade, across the Sahara desert and across the Indian Ocean, began after Muslim. Arab and Swahili traders won control of the Swahili Coast and sea routes during the 9th century see Sultanate of Zanzibar. A History Of Arab Peoples Pdf Editor' title='A History Of Arab Peoples Pdf Editor' />This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the regions problems should consist of. These traders captured Bantu peoples Zanj from the interior in present day Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania and brought them to the coast. There, the slaves gradually assimilated in the rural areas, particularly on the Unguja and Pemba islands. Some historians assert that as many as 1. Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa, and approximately 5 million African slaves were bought by Muslim slave traders and taken from Africa across the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara desert between 1. The captives were sold throughout the Middle East. This trade accelerated as superior ships led to more trade and greater demand for labour on plantations in the region. Eventually, tens of thousands of captives were being taken every year. The Indian Ocean slave trade was multi directional and changed over time. To meet the demand for menial labor, Bantu slaves bought by Arab slave traders from southeastern Africa were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to customers in Egypt, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, European colonies in the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands, Ethiopia and Somalia. Slave labor in East Africa was drawn from the Zanj, Bantu peoples that lived along the East African coast. The Zanj were for centuries shipped as slaves by Arab traders to all the countries bordering the Indian Ocean. The Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs recruited many Zanj slaves as soldiers and, as early as 6. Zanj against their Arab enslavers in Iraq see Zanj Rebellion. Ancient Chinese texts also mention ambassadors from Java presenting the Chinese emperor with two Seng Chi Zanj slaves as gifts, and Seng Chi slaves reaching China from the Hindu kingdom of Srivijaya in Java. The Zanj Rebellion, a series of uprisings that took place between 8. AD near the city of Basra also known as Basara, situated in present day Iraq, is believed to have involved enslaved Zanj that had originally been captured from the African Great Lakes region and areas further south in East Africa. It grew to involve over 5. Muslim empire and claimed over tens of thousands of lives in lower Iraq. The Zanj who were taken as slaves to the Middle East were often used in strenuous agricultural work. As the plantation economy boomed and the Arabs became richer, agriculture and other manual labor work was thought to be demeaning. The resulting labor shortage led to an increased slave market. It is certain that large numbers of slaves were exported from eastern Africa the best evidence for this is the magnitude of the Zanj revolt in Iraq in the 9th century, though not all of the slaves involved were Zanj. There is little evidence of what part of eastern Africa the Zanj came from, for the name is here evidently used in its general sense, rather than to designate the particular stretch of the coast, from about 3N. S., to which the name was also applied. The Zanj were needed to take care of the Tigris Euphrates delta, which had become abandoned marshland as a result of peasant migration and repeated flooding, could be reclaimed through intensive labor. Wealthy proprietors had received extensive grants of tidal land on the condition that they would make it arable. Sugar cane was prominent among the products of their plantations, particularly in Khzestn Province. Zanj also worked the salt mines of Mesopotamia, especially around Basra. Their jobs were to clear away the nitrous topsoil that made the land arable. The working conditions were also considered to be extremely harsh and miserable. Many other people were imported into the region, besides Zanj. Historian M. A. Shaban has argued that rebellion was not a slave revolt, but a revolt of blacks zanj. In his opinion, although a few runaway slaves did join the revolt, the majority of the participants were Arabs and free Zanj. If the revolt had been led by slaves, they would have lacked the necessary resources to combat the Abbasid government for as long as they did. Muslims also enslaved Europeans. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1. Europeans were captured between the 1. Barbary corsairs, who were vassals of the Ottoman Empire, and sold as slaves. These slaves were captured mainly from seaside villages from Italy, Spain, Portugal and also from more distant places like France or England, the Netherlands, Ireland and even Iceland. They were also taken from ships stopped by the pirates. The effects of these attacks were devastating France, England, and Spain each lost thousands of ships. Long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants, because of frequent pirate attacks. Pirate raids discouraged settlement along the coast until the 1. Periodic Muslim raiding expeditions were sent from Islamic Iberia to ravage the Christian Iberian kingdoms, bringing back slaves. In a raid against Lisbon in 1. Almohad Berber Muslim caliph, Abu Yusuf Yaqub al Mansur, took 3,0. Crdoba, in a subsequent attack upon Silves in 1. Christian slaves. Patrick Manning writes that although the Oriental or Arab slave trade is sometimes called the Islamic slave trade, a religious imperative was not the driver of the slavery. He further argues such use of the terms Islamic trade or Islamic world erroneously treats Africa as being outside Islam, or a negligible portion of the Islamic world. According to European historians, propagators of Islam in Africa often revealed a cautious attitude towards proselytizing because of its effect in reducing the potential reservoir of slaves. The subject merges with the Oriental slave trade, which followed two main routes in the Middle Ages The Arab slave trade originated before Islam and lasted more than a millennium. To meet the demand for plantation labor, these captured Zanj slaves were shipped to the Arabian peninsula and the Near East, among other areas. History of the Arab slave tradeeditThe Arab trade of Zanj Bantu slaves in Southeast Africa is one of the oldest slave trades, predating the European transatlantic slave trade by 7. Male slaves were often employed as servants, soldiers, or laborers by their owners, while female slaves, including those from Africa, were long traded to the Middle Eastern countries and kingdoms by Arab and Oriental traders as concubines and servants. Arab, African and Oriental traders were involved in the capture and transport of slaves northward across the Sahara desert and the Indian Ocean region into the Middle East, Persia and the Far East. From the 7th century until around the 1. Arab slave trade continued in one form or another. Historical accounts and references to slave owning nobility in Arabia, Yemen and elsewhere are frequent into the early 1. In 6. 41 during the Baqt, a treaty between the Christian state of Makuria and the Muslim rulers of Egypt, the Nubians agreed to give Arab traders more privileges of trade in addition to a share in their slave trading. In Somalia, the inhabiting Bantus are descended from Bantu groups that had settled in Southeast Africa after the initial expansion from NigeriaCameroon, and whose members were later captured and sold into the Arab slave trade. From 1. 80. 0 to 1. Atom Clicker Press Manual.