• ​Between 1750 and 1050 BC - Ancient slavery was present in civilizations as old as Mycenaean Greece, including ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. As the Roman Empire expanded, entire populations were enslaved, because this was an important factor in the development of cities. Those enslaved were for reasons of debt, punishment for crime, prisoners of war, the sale of children, and the birth of children of slaves. They were mainly used for labor.

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• The year 732 BC - Beginning of the Assyrian captivity, also known as the Assyrian exile, which is the period in the history of ancient Israel during which tens of thousands of Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were dispossessed and forcibly displaced by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Assyrians replaced the deported Israelite rulers with settlers, deliberately disrupting the previous social and cultural fabric of the region and making it difficult for a homogeneous Israelite culture and religion to flourish.

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• The year 597 BC - Beginning of the Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile, a period in Jewish history during which thousands of Judeans were exiled from the ancient kingdom of Judah to Babylonia by the Neo-Babylonian Empire. With the fall of Jerusalem, the Babylonians created two groups within the Jewish population between Athaliah (842-837 BC) and the exile (589 BC). Then, after the siege of Jerusalem, ensued a wave of exiles to Palestine (ancient Judea). It should be noted that the origin of the exiles was similar to that of other Ottoman provinces at the time, where the vast majority came from Africa, mainly from ancient Ethiopia and Sudan. In this regard, when Benjamin Netanyahu says about the Palestinians, "Expel Them to Congo!", it is not insignificant; he is simply saying send them back to their homeland.
  The exiles, which took place in several waves, were a means of controlling and suppressing nationalist tendencies in the African colonies. The Arabization of the identity of the Judeans exiled to Palestine began in the 4th century CE and was reinforced by the Arab-Islamic conquest in the early 7th century. After the Nakba of 1948, the Arab identity of the Palestinians became more pronounced. 
  Judea was once called “Eretz Israel” (the land of Israel), but was later changed to “Eretz Kna'an” (the land of Canaan) and the borders were known as the “borders of those who came out of Egypt.” (Numbers 34:2, Deuteronomy 1:6-8).

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• ​The year 68 AD - Briefly, according to historical accounts, until 66 AD, everything seemed to be running smoothly in Judea, the southern part of ancient Palestine in the former Roman Empire. However, decades of latent tensions between the Judeans and the Roman authorities turned into a full-blown revolt, which led to the second destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and the definitive exile of the Judeans to Egypt. In 68 AD, resistance in the northern part of the province was eradicated and the Romans turned their full attention to subjugating the Judeans. That same year, Emperor Nero died, creating a power vacuum in Rome. In the ensuing chaos, Vespasian was declared emperor and returned to the Imperial City. It was now up to his son, Titus, to lead the remaining army in the assault on the Judeans. The Roman legions surrounded Judea and began to slowly eradicate the Judean resistance forces. 

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• The year 70 AD - The Romans broke through the outer walls of the Judean cities and began to slaughter the inhabitants without mercy. The culmination of the assault was the burning and destruction of the Temple. The sacred relics of the Temple were transported to Rome and displayed in exhibitions as a sign of celebration of the victory. The Romans killed thousands of Judeans. Among those who escaped the slaughter, some were scattered throughout the arenas of the Empire to be exterminated for the amusement of the public, while others were deported to Egypt to work in the mines. 

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• The year 132 - there was the Bar Kokhba revolt, a large-scale armed rebellion by the Judeans of Judea, led by Simon bar Kokhba. The uprising had a devastating effect on both the population and their homes. The death toll was staggering, while multitudes of Jews were taken into captivity to fill the slave markets near and far. The Hebron slave market was particularly famous as a center for the sale of Jewish slaves sent into captivity by Hadrian. The Jews were so numerous that they were sold for crumbs.
  ► "The toll of the Bar Kochba uprising was devastating both on the population and on the places of habitation. The numbers of dead were awesome, while multitudes of Jews were taken captive to fill the slave markets near and far. The slave market of the Terebinth of Hebron was particularly famous as a center where Jewish slaves, sent into captivity by Hadrian were sold. So many Jewish slaves were available that, recording to one report, a Jew was sold for as little as the price of a portion of horse feed" |History of Am Yisrael in Ancient Days (Hebrew, Devir), 1971, p.321.|​
  ► "Now that Betar had been captured, everything came under Human control, while Palestine [Judah] was reduced to a desolate mound. Captives were sold into slavery in numbers too great to count. First they were brought to the grand annual market at the Terebinth-Eloh tree in Hebron, or in the words of Hyranumous, to the Tent-Ohel of Abraham near Hebron. Each slave sold for the price of a horse. Those captives who were not sold there were brought to the market place in Azza [Gaza] which, because of the great multitudes of slaves who were sold there, was called Hadrian’s market place. And those who were still not sold there were herded into ships and were taken to Egypt. Many died in transit, whether by starvation or by shipwreck, while many also were killed by cruel masters" |Munter, Primordia Eccl. Africanae, pp. 85f., 113|​
  ► "Because the soldiers were now growing weary of bloodshed, and survivors appeared constantly, Caesar orders to kill only those who offered armed resistance and to take alive all the rest. (415) The troops, in addition to those covered by their orders, slaughtered the aged and infirm; people to their prime who might be useful they herded into the Temple area and shut up in the Court of the Women (lcl. (416) Caesar appointed one of his freedmen as their guard, his friend Fronto, to decide the fate appropriate to each. (417) All those who had taken part in sedition and brigandage (they informed against other) he executed. He picked out the tallest and handsomest of the lot and reserved them for the Triumph (418). Of the rest, those who were over seventeen he put in chains and sent to hard labor in Egypt while great numbers were presented by Titus to the provinces to perish in the theaters by sword or by wild beasts; those under seventeen were sold”. |Josephus, “The Jewish Wars”; Book vi 9:2.|

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• In 650 AD - The trans-Saharan slave trade began, and continued throughout the Middle Ages until 1500. Millions of black slaves from sub-Saharan Africa were transported across the Sahara to the eastern Arab nations and to Constantinople (the Roman Empire) to be sold to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations; a small percentage went in the other direction. The Arabs regularly acquired slaves through violent raids, then captured them and sent them on dangerous forced marches across the Sahara to slave markets in Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and Egypt. Arab slave traders referred to these African populations as Zanj or Soudan, meaning “black”.

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• In 1526 AD - The Portuguese made the first transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed suit. Almost half of the slaves transported to the United States and southern Europe came from two regions: Senegambia, the region comprising the Senegal River, the Gambia River and the lands between them, Guinea-Bissau and Mali; and Angola, Congo-Brazza, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. The Gambia River, which links the Atlantic to Africa, was an essential waterway for the slave trade; at its peak, around one in six West African slaves came from this region. While the other half came from the West African nation of Ghana, as well as neighboring Côte d'Ivoire, the Bay of Biafra (which included parts of today's eastern Nigeria and Cameroon), a maritime entrance to Atlantic waters on the west coast of Africa, was the center of important slave-trading operations. The descendants of those Africans who were taken into captivity today make up considerable sections of the population of the USA, Brazil and many Caribbean islands.  ​​​​​​​​

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• In the 7th century AD - The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes referred to as the Islamic slave trade, Arab slave trade, or Eastern slave trade, began in the 7th century, following the rise of Islam under the Prophet Muhammad, and continued until the mid-20th century. This slave trade across the Red Sea involved transporting people from sub-Saharan Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East.

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• In the 16th century AD - slavery began in the British and French Caribbean. Originally, white European indentured servants worked alongside enslaved Africans in the Americas. But from 1778 onwards, the French slave trade began transporting around 13,000 Africans as slaves to the Caribbean and the French Antilles each year. The indigenous peoples, the Arawaks, were largely decimated by European diseases, violence, famine, and slavery and replaced by West Africans.​

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• In the 17th century AD - The Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes referred to as the East African slave trade, involved capturing and transporting mainly Africans from sub-Saharan Africa along the coast across the Indian Ocean. The areas affected included East Africa, South Arabia, the west coast of India, the islands of the Indian Ocean (including Madagascar), and Southeast Asia.​