Berbers and Blacks: Ibāḍī Slave Traffic in Eighth-Century North Africa

Contenu

Titre

Berbers and Blacks: Ibāḍī Slave Traffic in Eighth-Century North Africa

Créateur

Savage, Elizabeth Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

1992

Dans

The Journal of African History Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

The aim of this article is to illustrate the process whereby certain Berber tribes during the eighth century A.D. substituted slaves from the Bilād al-Sūdān for Berber slaves from North Africa. From the outset, this conversion was influenced strongly, if not instigated, by Ibāḍī merchants until the slave trade became a predominantly Ibāḍī monopoly from the mid-eighth century onwards. The slave trade along the central Sudan route in particular provided the increase in the community's wealth and security, as well as the means for its establishment and expansion as a Muslim sect among diverse Berber tribes and, finally, as the origins for the subsequent, far-flung network of trans-Saharan trade.

Langue

eng

volume

33

numéro

3

pages

351-368

doi

10.2307/183137

issn

0021-8537

Source

Fonds Martin Custers Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Ibadica Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Savage, Elizabeth, “Berbers and Blacks: Ibāḍī Slave Traffic in Eighth-Century North Africa”, 1992, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/3313