A captured slaveship from East Africa 1868

T-S Misc.28.256 last part
T-S Misc.28.256 last part
Letter from Khalaf b. Isaac to Halfon ha-Levi b. Nethanel (1140) Aden    T-S Misc.28.256

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Taken from:  India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza India Book By Friedman, Mordechai A. (Author), Goitein, S. D. (Author),

Geniza Lab ; Princeton Geniza Project  https://genizaprojects.princeton.edu/pgpsearch/?a=object&id=9250&q=zanj

 

 

Concerning the plunder of Aden (involving a person called al-Dughaym and the struggle between "the two Sultans" (=ʿAli b. Abu l-Gharat and Sabaʾ b. Abu Suʿud)), losses at sea, ……

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………. Further news about me, and my purchases: Our coreligionists arrived when the ships were ready to sail, and nothing remained with them. (meaning they sold everything to those ships).
During Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles) a qintir (unknown kind of ship) arrived from the land of the Zanj, which had in it new (raqiq or wild) slaves. I tried to purchase a (menial-wasif) servant for you, my lord, but was not successful.

 

Note: the general slave trade from east Africa is mentioned by nearly every author.

Slave trade specifically children.

Tuan Ch'eng-Shih (863); Abu Zaid al Hassan(916); Al Marvazi (1120); Mudjmal al -Tawarikh wa-l-qisas (1126); Al Idrisi (1150); Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (1434); Ibn Al Wardi (about 1456); Al Himyari (1461)

Slave trade specifically from and by Madagascar:

Ch'en Yuan-Ching (late12 century); Chao Ju-Kua (1226); Chou Chih-Chung (1366); Ning Xian Wang (1430); Wang Khi (1607).