en Slavery is a legacy of the Middle East. In the seventh century, when the advent of Islam, the status of slavery in the Hijaz in the Arabian peninsula and that is unfortunate. The Koran to the test for the adoption of a policy of emancipation, in effect, Abu Bakr, the second Caliph, the successor of his personal fortune to the end, most of the freed slaves. But it was a timid, not of restrictions real slave.