Slave routes across the Sahara: although historians have tended to focus on the Atlantic slave trade in African people, the numbers transported northwards across the desert are truly staggering. Justin Marozzi travels through the Libyan Sahara in search of the legacy of this lamentable traffic.

From: Geographical | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

When Englishman James Richardson set out for the Libyan Sahara in 1845, his motives weren't those of the average Saharan explorer. His mission, he wrote, was to excite "an abhorrence of the slave trade" in the hearts of his fellow countrymen. "I have, since I could exercise the power of reflection, always looked upon the traffic in human flesh and blood as the most gigantic system of wickedness the world ever saw," he wrote.

Seven years ago, more than 150 years after it had ceased to exist, I arrived in Libya to search for traces of the forgotten Saharan slave trade. Starting ...

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