Human beings have, for hundreds of years, enslaved and inflicted violence on other human beings, usually out of selfish desires. Slavery is the illegal act of possessing another human being as personal property and using them usually for free labor or sexual acts. Slavery has existed for hundreds of years, and the most infamous and violent form of slavery is European slavery. This type of slavery is known as chattel slavery, usually based on racial or geographic differences, where slaves are “treated as property and can be sold and bought.” European slavery is the well-known form of slavery, where Africans were considered slaves to be owned, traded, and transported to work on plantations as free property. While this is well known and familiar, there was a lesser known form of slavery and trade: the Arab slave trade. Arab trafficking began as early as 1095 and was abolished in 1970. This is what makes this form of slavery unique. ; lasted more than a millennium. However, in 1839, the Arab slave trade became the main way to make money and do business. Although the European slave trade was the harshest and most discussed slavery topic in history, many individuals fail to recognize another slavery practice that also impacted millions of Africans and Europeans: the slave trade Arabs: the harem trade. The slave trade, particularly those that occurred in harems, gained less recognition due to the exploitation and violent extent of the enslavement of Africans by Europeans. Another reason is also why Muslim leaders fail to call the treatment suffered by their slaves slavery. Due to the public's lack of knowledge on this topic, they fail to know the truth about the things that happened during this slavery. W...... middle of paper ......nds of Islam. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002. “The Arab Muslim Slave Trade of Africans, the Untold Story.” The world today. and http://worldtodayshow.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-of-africans-the-untold-story/ (accessed December 2011). Millingen, Frederick. "Circassian Slaves and the Sultan's Harem". Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, 1870: 9-10.Toledano, Ehud R. . "Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East." 30. University of Washington Press, 1998."The Arab Muslim African Slave Trade: An Untold Story." The world today. and http://worldtodayshow.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-of-africans-the-untold-story/ (accessed December 2011). The Organization of the Islamic Conference. “Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.” Item 11. 1990.