Slavery in Morocco

Ismail Ibn Sharif, known to have an unusually large harem of slave concubines as well as a slave army.
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A depiction of slaves being transported across the Sahara desert
The Slave Market of Marrakesh as depicted on the cover of Le Petit Parisien of June 2, 1907.[1]
Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara (1895) (14596234198)

Slavery existed in Morocco since antiquity until the 20th-century. Morocco was a center of the Trans-Saharan slave trade route of enslaved Black Africans from sub-Saharan Africa until the 20th-century, as well as a center of the Barbary slave trade of Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates until the 19th-century. The open slave trade was finally suppressed in Morocco in the 1920s. The haratin and the gnawa have been referred to as descendants of former slaves.

  1. ^ "Le Petit Parisien. Supplément littéraire illustré". Gallica. 1907-06-02. Retrieved 2021-07-25.