Slavery in Malaysia

British Malaya circa 1922
An Iranun lanong warship used for piracy and slave raids in the Sulu Sea

Chattel slavery existed in the area which was later to become Malaysia until it was abolished by the British in what was then the British Malaya and British Borneo (Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan) in 1915.

From the 14th-century onward the are consisted of Islamic sultanate states, which enslaved non-Muslims. In the 19th-century, the territory successively came under the control of the British Empire, which started a process to gradually abolish slavery and slave trade from the 1870s until the final abolition in 1915.


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