jump to the content  The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route
Date de soumission : 20/02/2006 Catégorie : Culturel Soumis par
: Antiquities Department Coordonnées From Bagamoyo S 6 26 - E 38
54 to Ujiji, Kigoma S4 54 - E 29 40 Ref.: 2095      Until, not
even 150 years ago, millions of Africans had to bear a cruel
fate. They were captured by slave hunters, chained together and
forced to walk some times hundred of kilometers to be sold for
example to planters who used them as cheap labour in their
fields. Central and East Africa was one of the main areas where
the slave hunters and traders, most of them Arabs made their
shade deals. They caught their victims e.g. in some areas which
is today parts of Democratic Republic of Congo and in the
Western and Central parts of what is today Tanzania. The Slaves
were brought to the coast and from there to the spice island of
Zanzibar and many were sold further to the Arab countries,
Persia, and India, Mauritania and Reunion. Officially, the slave
trade was forbidden in 1