ABSTRACT
After they had crossed the Sahara, nearly all the black slaves exported from North Africa were sent by sea, on a Mediterranean ‘middle passage’, to their final points of sale. A few might instead be sent overland into Egypt, and from Egypt some slaves could be taken across Sinai to the Levant. But shipping them to markets in the Balkans, the Aegean, Anatolia or the Levant was a much easier and cheaper option.
