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The alipin refers to the lowest social class among the various cultures of the Philippines before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries. The term alipin is used in the Tagalog lang
An illustration from Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas (1668) by Francisco Ignacio Alcina depicting a tattooed uluhan with a paddle, labeled "esclavo" ("slave")
The history of slavery in the Muslim world was throughout the history of Islam with slaves serving in various social and economic roles, from powerful emirs to harshly treated manual laborers. Slaves
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…were also known as kiapangdilihan in the Sultanate of Sulu (an Islamized Visayan polity). They were distinguished from the Arab and European-inspired chattel slaves, known as banyaga ("foreigner"), bisaya ("Visayan", who were the most common victims of Moro slave raids during the Spanish colonial period), ipun (a…
Sale of a child-slave (1872), painting by Vasily Vereshchagin in Turkestan, Russian Empire, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. A rich Turkish man examines a naked boy, before buying him.
Bilal ibn Ribah (pictured, atop the Kaaba) was an Ethiopian slave, emancipated on Muhammad's instruction, and appointed by him to be the first official muezzin.
13th-century slave market in Yemen.
Dhows were used to transport goods and slaves to Oman.