Summary: The Italian Slave Trade

Slavery was an essential part of the Roman Empire their slaves had the role of domestic servants, craft workers, and even imperial bureaucrats. Slavery became an increasingly marginal institution throughout Europe and Northern Africa. At times, they might have been captured by Viking raids, Christian crusaders captured by Muslims, or Muslims captured by crusaders. Italian merchants would bring large number of slavs for sale into the Mediterranean markets, and Slavs were so central to the slave trade that the word slave derive from Slav in many European languages. There is evidence that a small number of Africans arrived as slaves in Ireland in 859 and were known as “Blue men.” In the early fifteenth century in Barcelona, Spain there was a large African population to support an association of black Christian freedmen. In the other side of the Mediterranean, in the Islamic North Africa, slavery was part of the daily live. Slaves worked for the wealthy as servants and served as …show more content…
The trans-Saharan trade was never a large significant enough to affect the demographic of West Africa or the North African societies that acquired slaves. Slaves were rarely bought by Arab raiders but most of the time they were bought by North African merchants who bought the slaves from African merchants in the trading towns of the savannah and Sahel. This crime against humanity also known as the Atlantic slave trade was a force of migration for about 15 million people from Africa to the western Hemisphere, in the mid-15th century 15 the 19th century. The slave trade led to a violent transportation overseas and death to millions of African, the specific number of deaths in the slave trade is unknown. There was kidnapping of many Africans that occurred in the region that is known and stretches from Senegal to Angola. The imprisonment and transportation were horrendous conditions in the voyage from Africa to the