Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Trans-Saharan slave trade" in English language version.
Trans-Saharan slave trade was conducted within the ambits of the trans-Saharan trade, otherwise referred to as the Arab trade. Trans-Saharan trade, conducted across the Sahara Desert, was a web of commercial interactions between the Arab world (North Africa and the Persian Gulf) and sub-Saharan Africa.
While the Europeans organized the West African slave trade, the Arabs managed the East African and trans-Saharan counterparts.