Slavery in Morocco

Ismail Ibn Sharif, known to have an unusually large harem of slave concubines as well as a slave army.
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A depiction of slaves being transported across the Sahara desert
The Slave Market of Marrakesh as depicted on the cover of Le Petit Parisien of June 2, 1907.[1]
Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara (1895) (14596234198)

Slavery existed in Morocco since antiquity until the 20th century. Morocco was a center of the Trans-Saharan slave trade route of enslaved Black Africans from sub-Saharan Africa until the 20th century, as well as a center of the Barbary slave trade of Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates until the 19th century. The open slave trade was finally suppressed in Morocco in the 1920s. The haratin and the gnawa have been referred to as descendants of former slaves.

  1. ^ "Le Petit Parisien. Supplément littéraire illustré". Gallica. 1907-06-02. Retrieved 2021-07-25.

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