Between the 7th and 20th centuries, some 25 to 40 million people were reduced to slavery. This persistent and widespread enslavement process is exceptional for the sheer geographic scale involved - the Asian, Atlantic and African trade systems brought about a huge industry in human commerce - and for the ideological, legal and religious practices which served to justify it.

How was it possible to enslave almost 40 million people over nearly 13 centuries? How was it possible to accept the fact that people were reduced to the state of simple merchandise, to be bought, sold, exchanged or bequeathed like common goods and chattels? It is time to present a global investigation into what remains the most comprehensive exercise in dehumanisation ever orchestrated: the slave trade in black Africans from the 7th to the 20th century.

Eadar an 7mh 's an 20mh linn, chaidh eadar 25 is 40 millean neach an dèanamh nan tràillean. Tha am pròiseas tràilleachd bitheanta seo iongantach ri linn meud an raoin saoghail san do thachair e, na siostaman malairt ann an Àisia, a' Chuan Shiar agus Afraga a chruthaich gnìomhachas reic dhaonna, agus airson na cleachdaidhean smuain, lagha is cràbhachd a bhathar a' cleachdadh airson seo fhìrinneachadh.

Ciamar a ghabhadh 40 millean neach a chur am bruid ann an 13 linn? Ciamar a b' urrainn gabhail ri bhith a' dèanamh daoine nam bathar, a bh' air an reic 's an ceannach, air an toirt seachad neo air am fàgail mar dhìleab coltach ri maoin is stòras àbhaisteach? Tha an t-àm ann rannsachadh saoghalta fhoillseachadh mun chleachdadh di-dhaonnachaidh a bu mhotha a chaidh a-riamh a chur an cèill: malairt nan tràillean dubha Afraganach eadar an 7mh 's an 20mh linn.

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