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Morocco: the last great slave market?

Late nineteenth century Marrakesh market statistics suggest that Morocco as a whole was then not only the largest outlet in North Africa for black slaves traded across the Sahara, but was buying far more than ever before. This was mainly an internal market, with few slaves re‐exported to other Muslim lands. Following partly‐effective European abolitionist measures and other pressures, patterns of the Saharan slave trade underwent many changes from about 1840 onwards, with more slaves diverted from central desert markets to Morocco. But all the trade's elusive statistical and other evidence does not really support the late‐century Marrakesh market statistics, raising further questions about the true scale and scope of all Moroccan slave imports in their final years.