Slavery in Algeria

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A depiction of slaves being transported across the Sahara desert
Old book slavery in algeria
Captain walter croker horror stricken at algiers 1815

Slavery is noted in the area later known as Algeria since antiquity. Algeria was a center of the Trans-Saharan slave trade route of enslaved Black Africans from sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a center of the slave trade of Barbary slave trade of Europeans captured by the barbary pirates.

Slavery was formally prohibited in 1848, but the French colonial authorities in Algeria were slow to enforce emancipation for fear that it would lead to unrest among the Algerians against the French, and slavery and slave trade were still ongoing in the early 20th-century.