Trans-Saharan Slave Trade and Sahelian Slave Economies (c. 700–1900)

1. Baqt treaty sets Nubia slave-tribute system

   Jan 1, 652Labels: Baqt treaty, Makuria, Egypt

   • Medieval Nubia

2. Sijilmasa founded as Saharan caravan entrepôt

   Jan 1, 757Labels: Sijilmasa, Morocco

   • Sijilmasa

3. Awjila emerges as a key slave-market stop

   Jan 1, 900Labels: Awjila, Libya

   • Awjila

4. Almoravid expansion reshapes western Saharan trade

   Jan 1, 1054Labels: Almoravids, Sahara

   • EBSCO
   • Almoravids

5. Ibn Battuta describes Taghaza’s enslaved labor

   Feb 13, 1352Labels: Ibn Battuta, Taghaza

   • Ibn Battuta

6. Ibn Battuta notes slavery within Mali’s caravan world

   Jan 1, 1353Labels: Ibn Battuta, Mali

   • Trans Saharan
   • Ibn Battuta

7. Sijilmasa abandoned, weakening one major route hub

   Jan 1, 1393Labels: Sijilmasa, Morocco

   • Sijilmasa

8. Battle of Tondibi triggers Songhai’s collapse

   Mar 13, 1591Labels: Battle of, Songhai

   • Tondibi

9. Ghadames becomes a high-volume 19th-century slave hub

   Jan 1, 1830Labels: Ghadames, oasis town

   • Libya Slavery
   • Trans Saharan

10. French Second Republic abolishes slavery in colonies

    Apr 27, 1848Labels: French Second, France

    • 1848 Decree
    • Cambridge

11. Ottoman firman formally bans import of African slaves

    Jan 1, 1857Labels: Ottoman firman, Ottoman Empire

    • Ottoman Firman
    • Libya Slavery

12. Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference links suppression to empire

    Jul 2, 1890Labels: Brussels Conference, Brussels Act

    • Brussels Conf
    • Brussels Act

13. Trans-Saharan slave trading persists into the 1890s

    Jan 1, 1895Labels: trans-Saharan trade, Sahel

    • Libya Slavery
    • Trans Saharan