Muslim Empires Influence on African Slave Trade

Muslim Empires Influence on African Slave Trade

Introduction

The slave trade is the process of buying and selling people into slavery. The most widespread manifestation of the slave trade in history was the export of slaves from Africa. In this regard, the most common image of a black slave. However, the slave trade is not directly related to the race of slaves. With the development of public morality of the slave trade transformed the privileges of a crime, has lost its mass character, but, nevertheless, has not disappeared completely (Barker, 2006). Slavery is the status of a person who, by birth, debts, court order or by right of conquest has no civil rights and becomes the property of another person, who may lose or change it, use it in the activity it deems appropriate and in some cases even dispose of his life. Traditionally there are two main types of slavery, domestic violence, in which slaves or servants, perform auxiliary tasks at home, and 'productive' own slave of economic systems, which play the toughest jobs in the sector primary, as the cultivation of land or mining (Shahid, 2002). To recover the freedom envisaged two main forms: the manumission by the owner or the payment of a bailout, which could make the same slave, if he could gather sufficient. This paper focuses on the study of the influence of the Muslim Empires on African Slave trade.

Discussion

When the slave trade learned Christians by Muslims

In the history like the Europeans to blame for poverty in Africa is given. But as colonial powers, they benefited from the 17 Century by a system that had been established by the Arabs. Were over 17 million people have died because of Muslim slave traders. It had long looked like there were only Europeans to Africa's poverty to blame, so the picture has now changed. Manhunts Muslim militias in southern Sudan and the massacre of Muslim nomads in Nigerian Christians reveal fault lines that reach back far into the pre-colonial era (Gibbons, Fiachra, 2002). It's about time, writes the African anthropologist and economist Tidiane N'Diaye, "that the Arab Muslim slave trade, the genocide is tantamount, is examined in detail and equally comes to language as the trans-Atlantic trafficking in human beings." In this sense he has to be the appearance in France in 2008 and titled passionate much discussed book, "Le génocide voilé" - "The Veiled Genocide". About 17 million people have lost Africa over the last thirteen hundred years Arab Muslim slave traders, and it is the far greater number of those not included who were killed in the enslavement of entire villages (Shahid, 2002).

For if “the horror and cruelty neither differentiate nor can monopolize," could say but, "the merciless of the Arab Muslims robbers operated slave trade and led them jihad more devastating sub-Saharan Africa was as the transatlantic slave trade” (Gibbons, Fiachra, 2002). It had started this terrible bloodletting in the year 652 when the General and Emir Abdallah ben Said, the ...