Slavery In Africa

About a third of the Islamic states of the western Sudan were slaves including Ghana, Mali, and Segou. Between 1300 and 1900 about one-third of the population of Senegambia were enslaved as well. Also in the 19th century  about half of the population in Sierra Leone was also consisted of slaves. Same went for Duala of the Cameroon, the Igbo and people who were lower, half of their population were enslaved as well. Most of all of Africa there were more than one-third were enslaved in every part also more than half their population. When the British rule came to around North Nigeria at the 20th century there were about 2 to 2.5 million people enslaved in those areas. There were also an estimated 2 million slaves in Ethiopia in the early 1930s out of a estimated population of between 8 to 16 million. A German explorer by the name of  Gustav Nachtigal believed that for every slave that was brought to a market at least 3 to 4 died on the way there. A man name Tippu Tip was one of the most famous slave traders in Eastern Africa who was also the grandson of an enslaved African. Slavery in Africa was brutal and harsh at the amount of deaths that happened and also how they were traded constantly.