ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Arab slave trade

Imagine you are on an island with your friends and a group of bullies come and take you away without your permission. These bullies then take you far away from your home and parents and sell you to work for other people. This is kind of what happened during the Arab slave trade.

Back a long time ago, people from the Arab countries would come to other countries and take people away from their homes. These people were then sold as slaves to work for other people. This wasn't nice and wasn't fair, but it happened for many years.

Sometimes, these people were taken from Africa and brought to Arab countries where they had to work as slaves. This was a really bad thing because they were taken away from their homes and families and forced to work for someone else's benefit.

This slave trade lasted for a long time until people started to realize that it wasn't right to take people away from their homes and families to force them to work for others. Nowadays, we believe in treating all people equally and fairly, and we know that no one should be forced to work without their permission.