Contribution au rôle de la traite des esclaves dans le Sahara tripolitainau XIXe siècle : nouvelles découvertes en Libye et en TurquieстатьяИсследовательская статья
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Аннотация:Slavery was an ancient practice throughout the Sahara. However, it is difficult to estimate the role played by the slave trade in the famous trans-Saharan trade due to lack of data. On the other hand, there is sufficient data to calculate the size of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, all accounts relating to the Tripolitan Sahara were based on imaginative estimates by European consuls in Tripoli and European travellers in the region. Many European and American historians believed these sources without scrutiny, leading them to assume that the slave trade was of enormous importance to this trade. However, new discoveries from the archives of Libya and Turkey provide accurate figures for the slave market. Thus, contrary to the long-held belief of Western historians, these new findings prove the insignificance of the slave trade in the trans-Saharan trade.
