This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied transSaharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this the leastnoticed ofthe slave ... » 

This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied transSaharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this the leastnoticed ofthe slave trades out of Africa which from the seventh to the twentiethcenturies quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreignservitude as did the far busier but much briefer Atlantic and East Africantrades.Illuminating for the first time a significant but ignored subject the booksupports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans essential rolein the enslavement of fellowAfricans and their delivery to internal Atlanticor transSaharan markets. «