The Slave Trade's Indian Ocean Shadow

While the Atlantic slave trade dominates memory, a parallel system moved millions of Africans across the Indian Ocean, from the Swahili Coast to Arabia, Persia, and India. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the lesser-known Indian Ocean slave trade: its ancient roots, its scale, the rise of Omani power in Zanzibar, and the brutal clove plantations that fueled it. They follow the routes, the merchants, the enslaved — people like the African soldiers who became generals in India, and the women who served in Ottoman harems. They discuss the key difference: the Indian Ocean trade was not race-based but status-based, and enslaved people could rise to positions of power. They also touch on the British abolition efforts in the east, the slow end of the trade, and its lasting legacies in the diaspora of the Sidi in Gujarat and the Sheedi in Pakistan. #IndianOceanSlaveTrade #SwahiliCoast #Zanzibar #Oman #Said bin Sultan #MiddlePassage #Sidi #Sheedi #SlaveryInIndia #ArabSlaveTrade #ClovePlantations #TippuTip #BritishAbolition #EastAfrica #WorldHistory #History #FexingoHistory #AtlanticSlaveTrade Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo