About this episode
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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