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Who did most of the slave trade: Europeans or Arabs?

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I am going to assume without further explanations in your question that you mean slave trade from the 15th to the 19th century. This period had a slave trade that was predominantly out of Africa. read more

European slave trade was predominantly for the Atlantic trade and estimates range between 11 and 15 million people. Most African slaves taken were from West Africa from just north of the modern state of The Democratic Republic of the Congo to south of modern Senegal. read more

The Arab slave trade resulted in many deaths as slaves were captured and marched across the Sahara Desert or other lands in Africa. The Middle Passage of the European slave trade also resulted in the deaths of significant numbers of slaves, but probably not as many as died over more centuries of the Arab slave trade. read more

While the European involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day. read more

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