Traveling 29,000 miles back and forth across Africa, David Livingstone was horrified by the Arab Muslim slave trade. His letters, books, and journals stirred up a public outcry to abolish slavery. Livingston often passed caravans of 1,000 slaves tied together with neck yokes or leg irons, marching single file 500 miles down to the sea carrying ivory and heavy loads. Slaves who complained were speared and left to die, resulting in slave caravans being traced by vultures and hyenas feasting on corpses. [More]
Lew Alcindor, you're going to change your name to
what?
An excellent book on the topic of slavery is: "Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry", by Bernard Lewis.
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The Nubians in particular sent hundreds of thousands of their own countrymen to Arab slave traders as tribute to avoid the nuisance of having to fight off an Arab invasion.