Missionary to Africa, David Livingstone, wrote of witnessing the Muslim Arab slave trade in the mid-19nth century:
"We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body and lying on the path ... an Arab who passed early that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he had given for her, because she was unable to walk any longer.
We passed a woman tied by the neck to a tree and dead ... We came upon a man dead from starvation ...
The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be
broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and
made slaves."
David Livingstone estimated that each year over 80,000 Africans died before reaching the Muslim slave markets, writing to the editor of the New York Herald:
"If my disclosures regarding the terrible Muslim slavery should lead to the suppression of the slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together."
David Livingstone estimated that each year over 80,000 Africans died before reaching the Muslim slave markets, writing to the editor of the New York Herald:
"If my disclosures regarding the terrible Muslim slavery should lead to the suppression of the slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together."
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