Must have been part of the great enlightened era of Islam. ------Islamic world: Arab slave trade 13th century slave market in Yemen. .[68]In early Islamic states of the Western Sudan (present-day West Africa), including Ghana (750–1076), Mali (1235–1645), Segou (1712–1861), and Songhai (1275–1591), about a third of the population were enslaved.[69] Ibn Battuta indicates several times that he was given or purchased slaves.[70] The great 14th-century scholar Ibn Khaldun, wrote: the Black nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Blacks) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals.[71] Slaves were purchased or captured on the frontiers of the Islamic world and then imported to the major centers, where there were slave markets from which they were widely distributed.[72][73][74] In the 9th and 10th centuries, the black Zanj slaves may have constituted at least a half of the total population in lower Iraq.[75] At the same time, many tens of thousands of slaves in the region were also imported from Central Asia and the Caucasus.[76] Many slaves were taken in the wars with the Christian nations of medieval Europe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
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