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African Slavery: The Untold Story

CONFLICTED

An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

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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