Mark if the following statement about slavery in the Muslim world is correct. A. When European countries stopped participating in the slave trade, Muslim lands followed suit. B. Slavery had been practiced in Muslim societies since the founding of Islam in the 600s. C. Since the Middle Ages, Muslim traders had transported slaves to the Atlantic ports. D. Slave traders marched slaves for sixty or seventy days across the Sahara. E. Most slaves were women who worked not in fields but as household slaves. MORE THAN ONE ANSWER
B and E are both correct, with C being incorrect because slaves in the Arab world were not brought to Atlantic ports, nor did they have a significant connection to European slave trade (A) and many were transported by boats, not on foot (D).
