African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

[File, Standard] Hundreds of young women have been rushing to the Middle East countries for household ... dreams of a better life in foreign land. Slavery was not abolished in Saudi Arabia until ...

Listen to Shaibu Inusah on the trade ... the East, doors with gold locks, women wearing huge precious stones, musicians enlivening the banquets, beds covered with damask; and an army of slaves ...

Maid slavery • The exposé by the New York Times ... agencies “recruiting Kenyan women for servitude in the Middle East” is, Taabu Tele says, “proof of an evil practice of maid slavery”.

British Abolitionists, familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, had little knowledge about state coercion of the local peasantry because it was a localised institution that existed in the Middle ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...