THE RECORD

What the Arab Slave Trade Did to African Women Was Worse Than Death For over 1,300 years, millions of African women were absorbed into the Arab slave trade — and then erased from history. This documentary explores what really happened to them after capture: the markets, the desert crossings, the harems, and the silence that followed. Unlike the Atlantic slave trade, this system was designed to leave no descendants and no memory. The result was not monuments or memorials, but absence. Through historical sources, eyewitness accounts, and documented records, this video exposes a chapter of history most people were never taught.