CONFLICTED

African Slavery: The Untold Story

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In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks to former BBC journalist Martin Plaut about his new book Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement, which tells the whole story of African slavery, a story far older and more global than the one that focuses only on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Martin explains:

  • How Africa’s slavery story begins in the Nile Valley around 2900 BC
  • Why the trans-Saharan slave routes remain less examined than Atlantic slavery
  • What Islam did — and didn’t — change about slavery in practice
  • Indian Ocean slavery
  • Oman’s slave market in Zanzibar and its caravans that penetrated deep into central Africa
  • Indigenous African slavery in Ethiopia and the Sokoto Caliphate
  • The role of racial hierarchies and ‘slave blood’ stigma within societies
  • Barbary corsairs and European so-called ‘white slavery’
  • Contemporary chattel slavery in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan, and Libya
  • Why major institutions still prefer commemorating slavery in the past to confronting it in the present

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    Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

    This episode was produced by Thomas Small and edited by Lizzy Andrews.

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