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This compelling textual content sheds mild at the very important yet below studied trans-Saharan slave alternate. the writer uncovers and surveys this, theВ least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the 7th to the 20th centuries quielty delievered virtually as many black Africans into overseas servitude as did the some distance busier, yet a lot briefer Atlantic and East African trades.
IlluminatingВ for the 1st time an important, yet ignoredВ subject, the bookВ supports and widens present scholarly exam of Africans' crucial function within the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their supply to inner, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.
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34 It assumes that the ‘service life’ of a slave (the time between final purchase and manumission or death) was only seven years. As Austen explains, the assumptions on which this figure is based are: . . a high death rate of slaves during their first years of settlement [in the Arab World] and also during any subsequent epidemics; the manumission of more of the surviving slaves within 10 years of their entry into service; a virtually zero rate of reproduction among slaves . . 36 Black slaves were known to be prone to the recurrent outbreaks of plague in the Middle East and North Africa.
But, above all, and when all other factors are taken into account, it survived because this was the central Sahara’s shortest and most direct route to the Mediterranean. It served the slave markets of Tunis, Tripoli and, via Augila oasis, those of Egypt and the Levant. 30 The medieval Saharan slave trade Apart from Fezzan, there was also Ghadames. 76 But he had nothing to say about its trade. 78 There is no suggestion by any of these authors that Ghadames was a leading medieval entrepot of the slave trade.
But in 1172–73 the Banu Khattab were overthrown by a mamluk adventurer, Sharif al-Din Karakush, trade through Fezzan was disrupted, and Zawila lost for ever its commercial pre-eminence. ’65 In the mid-thirteenth century, the widening power of Kanem enabled the ruler to intervene in Fezzan to protect the vital northbound slave trade and to prevent its possible diversion onto other routes. He annexed Fezzan, installing a governor at a new market capital at Traghen, nearly mid-way between Zawila and Murzuk.