The 8th century onwards for over 1000 years africa was the epicenter of a global form of human trafficking. My parents were abused by those with a fair complection or. Songhai for lani. To equal. Over 20000000 africans were deported traded and reduced to slavery this criminal system shaped our history and our world so expansive was its reach that for a long time it seemed impossible to fully explain its mechanisms. In this series we will journey back along the roots of the slave trade. The thing about the slave trade a key thing about the slave trade and i always would have to explain a store American Students who immediately would want to put it into a kind of an ethical human rights kind of a card to have to look at in economic terms and so if you have a if youre talking about a slave trade if so where is the demand where is there a demand for labor and what is the nature of that demand from white for. 2000 years ago slavery became an integral feature of the roman empire eventually in 476 rome collapsed under the pressure of invasions by socalled barbarians. Scattered territories a range of peoples and powers fought over the empires remains this a goddess and just like rome before them leases from the steps of some 2 to russia to a ball of Eastern Europe or them most of the european languages comes from. Blades where white the majority of slaves being black is a back is a relatively recent phenomenon in history. One of the starting points of this one from the network of trade routes between the middle east and africa. Today its the continents most important crossroad crossroads for people and goods are the ruins of things are neglected sight and yet this is where the destinies of africa the middle east and the mediterranean converged urged some 1400 years ago. In 641. 00 a Game Changing event would occur with their vast Conquest Campaign underway their expansion into egypt would change the continents entire economy and intensify the demand for slaves. Slavery was crucial to the self the self and it was crucial to the system and so for these slums empire and its expansion from the concourses self cup to vhs where turned into slaves and those slaves were recruited in da to me that conquered basically the world at that time. It was 1st and foremost a trade with economic and political stakes. The slaves were the essential source of energy. Back then there was no oil because. They were in effect the driving force behind these emerging empires. The arab troops pressed ahead as far as south of egypt all along the nile stretch the christian lines of. Their arabs found provisions and above all slaves who they would enlist in their armies to pursue their expansion in 769. 00 they signed a pact with the new stipulating that hostilities would cease 360. 00 slaves per year in a war. Considered. Thing to do with prisoners. Out warfare was the major cause through our. Brave and. Which was the next. The conquest was korea. They use these agreements to organize. The illustrated manuscripts short tales taken from arabic literature show how these 1st african slaves slaves intermingled with muslim societies. After 2 centuries of military conquest the demand for slaves of volved in the 9th century the dynasty embarked on a monumental project to transform this form the swamps around. Iraq. On some sides there were between 505000 workers workers. And there was considerable turn on 10 to 15 years. In order to get to. Muslim arabs from another culture are trade networks from the entire mediterranean to the caucuses the caucasus turkey the balkans and russia needs of slaves referred to as sunday street streamed in a portion ward. Began to be brought in large numbers to what is now iraq who are from this part of of course. That. Began to be used as a name to mean to mean slaves in general. Broke out among the banks of the euphrates at the banks of the euphrates and the tigris in 1969 the senate took up arms and raised an army numbering tens of thousands of men. Heading the insurrection was ali mohammed. The most a mother to the. Section among them the ones who couldnt afford to have revolution there is no disruptive it seems to have been one of the contributing factors to a kind of a shrinking of trading in the india western indian ocean put down the rebellion between 5000028001 1000000 did the decline of wine of the far far ahead of venice and constantinople the empires slavery routes turned toward africa customs change changed as did the slaves position in society. Slaves in egypt were reflected the wealth of cairo and so we find slaves in all levels of society to find slaves as. Former labor plays reflected in owners social stop social status and increase their own koreans had no information on the slaves who were taken to cairo but they discover almost a millennium the jews of this son of god deposited documents manuscripts into a lot into a lot bury these documents and in a ritual way because those documents might have the name of god written on them and so they werent to be disposed of casually. But the community buried the stock dozens and dozens of bills of sale for slaves. Preserved at the universe capital. To cairo ultra true this life from antiquity of the car cation was replaced by the african. And the 13th century center. Africa was exposed and vulnerable new billions ethiopians and sudanese would now make up the majority of slave contingents sold in cairo. Here at the street markets most were women black women who were exhibited as trophies. Destined to satisfy all of their masters requirements their prices were determined by their age and beauty. Sleep women have a variety of prosperity prodigality so these are these are all means which reflect the way that slavery function as a kind of form of consumption and then we also have have slaves would names like. Wild rose musk. Names that reflect luxury items very often when you have domestic slaves and questionable relationship begins to develop anything it can become quite intimate for example when a child is born a guard she would be given a slave servant. Who would grow up with her but almost like a friend although the state does its quite different. Because were often told that in islam but slavery was very bitter and a list with a tight relationship between slave and master and that the slave was always sure they would have benchley be freed and integrated into the masters family if you met last quick on them i believe its misleading to consider slavery this way as something that had a soft side. One to put but comply you cant understand slavery if you dont relate it to the violence at its heart so soft slavery or domestic slavery you know thats nonsense slavery is the negation of being human through the use of violence. Of your laws. That fit this bill. As the empire expanded more and more slaves adopted their masters religion. Since islam for bade the enslavement of muslims the newly converted thought they could now escape the violence of these domineering relations these conversions posed a contradiction for the arabs on the one hand they had to enfranchise these new muslims on the other hand they would not give up their slaves. Thinking from the islamic perspective its only true and belief that you get slaves thats the legal you know principle basically in the front years of islam is considering the people they are and believers thats the legitimate area where slaves can be produced. As the number of converts grew the arabs had to find new sources of slaves conversion in turn created demand having become muslims certain groups such as the barbers sided with the arabs and helped them find captives beyond the empires borders. Beggars themselves wherein slave to buy dollars although the convert to islam they were to the dallas inferior and vassals. The whole of the better verse in the tulsa harang trade and serve fundamental the 1st knowledge we have its from out of exposes that talk about to beggars having. Established. The Sahar Network with subsaharan africans. What we know is that the use of the camel helped basically increase the trade. And that knowledge was transmitted to the arabs. The bevers support was of crucial value. They were masters of desert survival techniques beginning with the use of camels the only rideable animals capable of doing without water for weeks. Thanks to this means of transportation the arabs were able to cross the daunting sahara barrier. So here or in some ways is a barrier but so are the oceans and in some ways are you after Developer Technology on the ability to cross that it was always a barrier. A political issues of movement of people. Trade routes formed between the north and south of the sahara to connect both ends of the desert merchants had to follow the caravan route right along babbar territory and pass through the sea was. The dumbest guy on. Massa before arriving in timbuktu the deserts last stop and the gateway to the mali empire. Victory in the great battle of karena arena in 1235 enabled him to unite all of the regions peoples and form a massive commercial network along the banks of the niger. Martin. Arabs and barras established a trading post in timbuktu from where they maintain trade relations with the centralised empire. They bartered salt fabric jewelry and mediterranean dates in return for ivory copper slaves and most importantly gold. Reorganize trade tried to build up into regional relations in order to protect his empires interests. So organizing regional an interagency trade was one of his greatest accomplishment as a result it may even have provided the foundations for the mali empire. Up to the one. Timbuktus importance stemmed from its geographical location. On the banks of the niger river its port became a center for transferring luggage and goods to and from the north. This natural crossroads occupied a strategic position in the transept herron trade. The mali empire which the babbar has traded with enjoyed abundant wealth thanks to the book and were a mines zest dids the gold trade and slavery were closely like a gold trade and slavery were closely linked. Local its usually said that both grew into. A downward slavery was in fact hidden beneath for. The threat that slavery posed to the survival of the malenka country full of the better to be men and women of. Themselves prohibited slavery it you know edition of the countrys prosperity for a century them for a century the molly and higher reigned over all of western africa leaving behind the deserts greatest library. In timber housing medieval manuscripts are preserved them down from. The. Threatened with destruction tens of thousands of moran reveals how western africa. Thanks to merchant contacts between arab areas and african elites muslim culture gradually spread among inhabited and habitants of the sahara region south of the sahara to the point where. And they can benefit from the slum the compiler. Which is access to that big market that was controlled by the islamic empire. In the Islamic Community 6. Inversion of people in the sun hell region because of humanity. They dont really see them as humans they consider them to be cannibals. If this is the thought their lawyer logically that they love the thought of the. Dog you know for some of these descriptions show that reducing them to slavery was not really a problem from a theological or moral point of view one of more than food mantle and this column here. And you can use the difference in skin complection difference in religion. In the transfer heroin trade both both were combined. The history of timbuktu is intertwined with that a slave that is slavery. According to legend the city took its name from an old female slave who would watch over the well where the. Manes a caste based society in timbuktu ancestry determine the rags former of former warlords descendants of slaves who have nothing apart from their capacity for forced never mind. But at the body but those with. The workers because losing blood is considered to be stress this nature on to your. Life and this is to say creating just workers without resort out resorting to team century. Or from the groups that that brought so much as well. But people its. Cheap us can get we dont have we dont have precise but it seems that many more people died a good. Supper sent. Sent so the. Ships used to unload their goods. Thousands of captives arrived in egypt at this location after after a 4500 kilometer to be discovered because theyve yet to difference of history presence is considered totally white. And that black tunisians algerians and moroccans are struck ins are strangers men although theyve been here for centuries. And one whose. Son but hes. Better than best with a law as the appeal in high school i was taught this horrible poem in which black slaves are describing men i lament as were the mafia. Life in the years 1324 months some rusa the sun the new remains to mecca by egypt for the 1st time for the 1st time a leader from the south met those in power he reported acura rival in cairo on the night of sunday 15 strike the fust the moon rose completely if. He stayed for 3 days on thursday 26 roger ailes to do so. Slave girls gobbles garments on the range of a do not sell by 6 peter than any to plenty to pledge that amount to go 12000 slaves just for his personal talk to says voyage marked a turning point in history in strew the mediterranean the Catalan World in its entirety. It shows that on foot. In the east near the nile and the red sunset mussa mussa holding all of the gold in the world in his hands. Great african empires of the medieval era. We tend to forget the riches that were produced back which had also become known to the europeans. Ringback trade routes crossed the subsaharan african desert all the way up to the joints for shipments to the markets of general marsay and granada ported as far as china and japan and japan in all the impact of the transparency of trade has left a dead end live and libya are today home to 2000000. 00 of slave descent thanks to reste to reassert their authority over the valorous. Many had to fight and his wife asia a shuttle who have tried to free them south told us. I couldnt bear it anymore. I couldnt live with my family. I did everything they wanted me or animals in return with the love. Of their former masters they often live in absolute poverty. And individuals ancestry. This this difficulty to free themselves from their caste perpetuates a 1000 year if you are a member of government youd still be accompted youd still be a captive. Even if youre a fair skinned men offered to go dig into it in the early. Years of states get thousands of molly and eritreans sudanese ans of mali and eritreans sudanese and libyans continue to poverty persecutes the mediterranean. Once in cairo these people become people become easy prey and. I. This new 14th Century Congress soon unprecedently above. Go to africa whats the buzz around the end of the. Eco eco now for a good. 30 minutes on d w. Make me think i havent done we are ruining the basic elements of our existence or supplies will last for ever. Starts march 20th on double meaning more. Plain. Play. This is the w. News live from Berlin Germany closes its borders with some of its neighbors authorities will partially shut boundaries with austria and switzerland and step up controls on the front tier with