Where northen african people enslaved?
If you are talking about the North American slave trade, the answer is no, although it is a possibility that a very few residents of these areas were enslaved. However, if you are talking about the Islamic slave trade (aka the Arab slave trade), then the answer is yes. After Islamic armies conquered Northern Africa in the 7th century, a thriving slave trade followed. While the Koran prohibits taking Muslims as slaves, it sanctions the taking of non-Muslims as slaves and large numbers of non-Muslim Arabs, Berbers and other residents of North Africa found their way into Islamic slave markets. The slave trade was so lucrative Northern African Arabs and Berbers were discouraged from converting to Islam, something that would make them ineligible for enslavement. After most of the tribes in North Africa converted to Islam in the eighth and ninth centuries, the Islamic slave trade moved south to SubSarharian Africa. Historians estimate that between 10 million and 25 million black Africans wer
