The Indian Ocean Slave Trade: East Africa's Forgotten Diaspora

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History · Jul 19, 2026 · 7m · transcript

We often think of the Atlantic when we hear 'slave trade,' but for centuries before and after, a vast network moved enslaved people from East Africa across the Indian Ocean to Arabia, Persia, and India. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the scale, the routes, and the human cost of the East African slave trade — from the Swahili Coast to the markets of Zanzibar. They discuss the Omani Empire's role, the Portuguese disruption, the notorious slave market at Stone Town, and the British abolition efforts that officially outlawed the trade in the early 1800s but did little to…