With the abolition of the slavery, came the end of this horrific mass forced movement of people around the mid-nineteenth century.Īt the time of abolition slaves were freed by their owners, or they had already earned their own freedom, but were unable to return to their homeland. As well as soldiers or bodyguards African’s worked for the wealthy or colonial powers of the time as domestic slaves, concubines, agricultural workers, wet nurses. India and Pakistan were major destinations for African slaves who were favoured by the warring Maharajah’s, admiring their physical strength and loyalty, and who, continuously feuding with each other, needed protection. Between the first and 20th century, beginning with Arabs and the Ottomans, and later continued by the Portuguese, the Dutch, French and the British, an estimated 4 million African’s were taken from their homes, mostly in East Africa, and across the Indian Ocean.ĭuring this time there was also a voluntary migration of African’s as travellers and traders to countries around the peripheries of the Indian Ocean and further east. But this wasn’t the only slave route that existed a far older eastern movement of slaves was forcibly taking people to the opposite side of the world. Much has been documented and studied about this horrific part of history. Few need introducing to the Western movement of slaves from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.
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