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Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa was the center of the Arab slave trade where African slaves were transported in Arab slave dhows to the slave markets by Arab-Swahili tribes. King Mutesa of the African Kingdom of Buganda was the largest supplier of captured African slaves being sent to the Arab slave markets in Zanzibar. Slavery would not have been possible without the involvement of African tribes selling their captured African tribes people to the Arab slave traders in Zanzibar. The Ottoman Empire was a large market for African slaves sold by the Arab traders. African boys were sold as eunuchs to guard the Sultans harems of pretty young African girls.

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