Right now. In this century.
Video above from a report filed fifteen years ago, showing that the practice of Muslim slavery had never really gone away – and is now once again on the rise
Muslim Slavery Resurgent as Sudan Arabs Kidnapping Black Africans
From the people that pretty much invented it, the taking of slaves is happening again in the benighted, failed state of Sudan:
Nairobi — Officially, [the] slave trade ended 200 years ago after abolitionists in Britain and the US banned the oppressive enterprise. Before the end of that dark era, millions of Africans had been ferried across the Atlantic and sold into servitude across the Americas.
But history has a way of repeating itself, and it is doing just that in Sudan, where thousands of black Africans from the south are abducted and sold as slaves in the Arab north.
According to reports from non-governmental organisations and human rights agencies, a black slave goes for between $10 and $100 (Sh800 and Sh8,000), and various sources claim there are more than 10,000 people living in slavery and servitude in Sudan today, most of them abducted from their villages by government-backed Arab militia.
The motivation for this, the sources say, is a desire for the northern rulers to terrorise their southern subjects and, in the process, distract rebel forces from attacking government targets.
Northern rulers = muslim
Southern subjects = Christians
‘Thousands of slaves in Sudan’ -BBC 2003
Slavery, Abduction and Forced Servitude in Sudan (pdf 2002)
Slavery and Slave Redemption in the Sudan (HRW)
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