Historical, ethnographic, and literary evidence suggests these differences can be traced in part to the trans-Saharan slave trade, which gave rise to racialized sexual tropes of blacks and Arabs that ...

In this way, an extensive network including sub-Saharan rural areas and trans-Saharan trade routes took shape.

In this way, an extensive network including sub-Saharan rural areas and trans-Saharan trade routes took shape.

How did the civilizations of North Africa connect with the rest of the continent in ancient and medieval times? This video explores the trans-Saharan trade routes, cultural exchanges, and powerful ...

Black Africans in the Mediterranean world : introduction to a neglected aspect of the African diaspora / John Hunwick -- Slave trade in the Western Sudan during the nineteenth century / Martin A.

This Mauritanian city, once a stop along the trans-Saharan trade route, boasts 13 libraries and some 6,000 manuscripts. Their teachings range from Islamic law to poetry to mathematics.

A revised estimate of the value of trans-Saharan trade in the nineteenth century suggests that, so far from declining, the caravan traffic between North Africa and the Western Sudan increased before ...