How did the Islamic slave trade differ from the trans-Atlantic trade?

Answer 1

The Roman slave trade varied. The slaves were captured by the Roman Army. If a captured prisoner did not get sent to the arena or some other place to be killed, he or she would be sold as a slave. Slaves could work half a day for their master and half a day for themselves. The children of slaves would be free people. They would not be slaves. When the Roman Empire stopped expanding its source of slaves greatly decreased.

In the Atlantic slave trade, the Arabs captured the slaves and sold them to the western ship captains. When they crossed the Atlantic, the situation varied. Some of the Latin American nations followed Roman Law. When the nations gained independence and the slaves died, their children were free and slavery ended. Brazil retained the Latin system except that children born to slave parents were slaves. In English colonies slaves belonged to their masters 24 hours a day. The children of slaves remained slaves.

Answer 2

The similarities (below) far outweigh the differences, but there are a few differences:

(1) Method of Acquisition of Slaves: The Islamic Slave Trade acquired slaves through a variety of methods. The primary way, especially for acquiring Slavic and African slaves, was to buy slaves from local kingdoms of fiefdoms and transport them back to the Islamic States. However, other groups of slaves, especially Türks, were militarily captured by the Arabs themselves and brought back to the Islamic States. Europeans exclusively used the former method.

(2) Method of Transport of Slaves: Trans-Atlantic Slavery was routine in that the Europeans would receive their slaves at coastal fortresses and then set sail with the slaves where they would be packed like sardines and deposited at major port cities in the New World. Since Islamic Slaves were transported overland, they were transported in whatever way was most efficacious to cover the ground, from camel caravans in the Sahara to oxen-pulled carts in the Balkans.

(3) Slave-Breeding: Since the Trans-Atlantic voyage was long and difficult, many American (all Americas) slave-owners chose to breed their slaves by pairing strong males and females (like animals). Unlike the Europeans, though, Arab Muslims saw fit to castrate all of their male African slaves so that they could not form a large Black population in the Arab countries. African female slaves were often sexually abused by their masters.

(4) Mix-Race Enslavement: The Arabs were less concerned about the race of their slaves than were Europeans. They enslaved Whites, Non-Arab Middle Easterners, Türks, Blacks, etc. Europeans specifically targeted Blacks over other racial and ethnic groups.

(5) Use of Slaves: In the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Slaves were typically used in plantation agriculture and in domestic service to a lesser degree. In the Islamic Slave Trade, female slaves were generally used in domestic positions and as concubines. Male slaves were also primarily domestic slaves, but a large minority were turned into slave military regiments (the Mamluks).

(6) Number of Victims: There are estimates that there were between 12-20 million Trans-Atlantic slaves. Considering that 10-15% of Africans died en-route to the Americas, 1-3 million Africans died without even knowing enslavement. There are estimates that there were 5 million Islamic slaves, but overland transport was far more prone to death (bandits, starvation, drought, getting lost, etc.), so it is estimated only 10-15% of Africans who were purchased in Sub-Saharan Africa survived to arrive in the Islamic Empires. This would mean that over 10 million Africans died en route to the slave markets in Cairo and Tripoli.

(7) Popular Knowledge: Many more people are familiar with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade than the Islamic Slave Trade. This could be because the Trans-Atlantic Slaves' descendants still live and speak about their condition or this could be because of the introspectiveness and political correctness that prevails in Western societies but does not prevail in the Islamic World.

The Islamic Slave Trade was incredibly developed. Islamic States pioneered many of the quintessential parts of what would define the European Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 16th-19th centuries. This included long-distance travel between the slave acquisition and the market, the use of large competitive marketplaces in urban centers to auction slaves, the development of legal doctrines about what rights owners had to transfer slaves to other owners, and, contrary to Islamic teachings and modern science, that Blacks had a more bestial nature, making them better-suited to the rigors of hard work and enslavement. It should not be surprising that the Spanish and Portuguese (who had lived under Islamic States for centuries) were the first European States to re-create a complex enslavement system.

Answer 3

Similarities
The similarities far outweigh the differences. The Islamic Slave Trade was incredibly developed. Islamic States pioneered many of the quintessential parts of what would define the European Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 16th-19th centuries. This included (1) long-distance travel between the slave acquisition and the market, (2) the use of large competitive marketplaces in urban centers to auction slaves, (3) the development of legal doctrines about what rights owners had to transfer slaves to other owners, and, (4) contrary to Islamic teachings and modern science, that Blacks had a more bestial nature, making them better-suited to the rigors of hard work and enslavement. It should not be surprising that the Spanish and Portuguese (who had lived under Islamic States for centuries) were the first European States to re-create a complex enslavement system.

Differences
All of that said, there are a few differences:

(1) Method of Acquisition of Slaves: The Islamic Slave Trade acquired slaves through a variety of methods. The primary way, especially for acquiring Slavic and African slaves, was to buy slaves from local kingdoms of fiefdoms and transport them back to the Islamic States. However, other groups of slaves, especially Türks, were militarily captured by the Arabs themselves and brought back to the Islamic States. Europeans exclusively used the former method.

(2) Method of Transport of Slaves: Trans-Atlantic Slavery was routine in that the Europeans would receive their slaves at coastal fortresses and then set sail with the slaves where they would be packed like sardines and deposited at major port cities in the New World. Since Islamic Slaves were transported overland, they were transported in whatever way was most efficacious to cover the ground, from camel caravans in the Sahara to oxen-pulled carts in the Balkans.

(3) Slave-Breeding: Since the Trans-Atlantic voyage was long and difficult, many American (all Americas) slave-owners chose to breed their slaves by pairing strong males and females (like animals). Unlike the Europeans, though, Arab Muslims saw fit to castrate all of their male African slaves so that they could not form a large Black population in the Arab countries. African female slaves were often sexually abused by their masters.

(4) Mix-Race Enslavement: The Arabs were less concerned about the race of their slaves than were Europeans. They enslaved Whites, Non-Arab Middle Easterners, Türks, Blacks, etc. Europeans specifically targeted Blacks over other racial and ethnic groups.

(5) Use of Slaves: In the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Slaves were typically used in plantation agriculture and in domestic service to a lesser degree. In the Islamic Slave Trade, female slaves were generally used in domestic positions and as concubines. Male slaves were also primarily domestic slaves, but a large minority were turned into slave military regiments (the Mamluks).

(6) Number of Victims: There are estimates that there were between 12-20 million Trans-Atlantic slaves. Considering that 10-15% of Africans died en-route to the Americas, 1-3 million Africans died without even knowing enslavement. There are estimates that there were 5 million Islamic slaves, but overland transport was far more prone to death (bandits, starvation, drought, getting lost, etc.), so it is estimated only 10-15% of Africans who were purchased in Sub-Saharan Africa survived to arrive in the Islamic Empires. This would mean that over 10 million Africans died en route to the slave markets in Cairo and Tripoli.

(7) Popular Knowledge: Many more people are familiar with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade than the Islamic Slave Trade. This could be because the Trans-Atlantic Slaves' descendants still live and speak about their condition or this could be because of the introspectiveness and political correctness that prevails in Western societies but does not prevail in the Islamic World.