History of Trans Saharan Slave & Transatlantic Slave Trade

Trace the Trans-Saharan slave trade from ancient times to the 20th century, detailing early, classical, and later phases across land and oriental routes.

Explore African slavery in Iran, where diverse ethnicities were enslaved as concubines, domestic workers, or guards. The lecture traces trade routes from Abyssinia to the Persian Gulf and abolition pressures.

The Zanj rebellion, led by Ali ibn Muhammad, mobilized enslaved Southeast Africans in southern Iraq, using guerrilla warfare to challenge the Abbasid state for 14 years before its suppression.

Examine the Indian Ocean slave trade, also called the East African, oriental, or Arab slave trade, tracing BCE origins and trading routes across the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean.

Examine the East African slave trade’s scale in the 19th century, with 1 to 2.5 million people sold, and the Arab slave trade from the 7th century to the 1960s.

Explore the Indian East African slave trade, led by Gujarati and Sindhi merchants across East African ports, using African slaves as mariners, bodyguards, and trading networks, until abolition in 1807.

Explore the Caribbean slave trade across Jamaica, Barbados, and Haiti, detailing indigenous displacement, African slavery, sugar economies, maroons, rebellions, abolition in 1808, and Haitian independence.

Trace the transatlantic slave trade from Portuguese exploration along the West African coast to Cape Bojador and Cape Verde, highlighting kidnapping, abuse of power, and European roles through 15th–19th centuries.

Explore 19th-century Yoruba warfare, the collapse of the Oyo empire, the rise of Ilorin and Ibadan, sieges such as Osogbo, and Fulani incursions and slavery.

Trace the Brazil slave trade from enslaving Tupinamba Indians to the rise of African slavery. Explore abolition pressure, the free womb law, and whitening policies shaping labor and society.

Explore the central Africa slave system forming the kingdom of Kongo through hostage transfers, linking Trans-Saharan and East African slave trades under Arabs and Swahili traders, driven by ivory.

Explore the rise of new slave traders, including mixed-heritage coastal networks formed by Portuguese-African partnerships, driving trans-saharan and transatlantic slave trades.