Central Africa: Captured slaves being transported across a river by canoe. Illustration by Edward Winsor Kemble (18 January 1861 - 19 September 1933), 1880s. Black slaves were imported into the Muslim world from Africa by a number of routes northward across the Sahara desert, and by sea into Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Estimates of the number involved vary greatly but it seems that there may easily have been 10 million, perhaps even twice that number. Two-thirds of African slaves were female. The males were considered to be troublesome.

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