Eps 7: Slavery of Sub-Saharan Africa

Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans -- as did a slave trade that exported a small number of sub-Saharan Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.
It would be a grave mistake to assume that the kinds of slavery found in Africa were identical to the system of plantation slavery that developed in the New World.
Slavery in early sub-Saharan Africa took a variety of forms.