The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades.
Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.

John Wright is retired and lives in Chino Valley, Arizona. When not writing he spends his free time outdoors riding the back roads in the country around him, taking in the sights and scenes that nature has to offer. He is also an avid arts and crafts enthusiast making many different things like scroll sawing designs, lamps, Western-style clocks, and guns from the Old West, all made out of wood. when not writing or enjoying the outdoors he likes to spend time in his workshop making all the above.

1. Slaves, Slavery and the Sahara  2. The Sahara: Grazing, War and Trade  3. The Medieval Saharan Slave Trade  4. The Land Ways and the Sea Ways  5.  Faith in Abolition  6. The Slave Trade thriough Murzuk  7. The Slave Trade through Ghadames and Ghat  8. The Wadai Road  9. The Slave Trade between Sahara and Mediterranean  10. The Mediterranean Middle Passage  11. Morocco: The Lasat Great Slave Market  12. The Delusions of Abolition