African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

The massive task of bringing slaves from Africa relied on abductions and human trafficking at an enormous scale. Between the ...

In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter ... Some of the descendants of African traders are alive today.

However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between African rulers and European traders were strong. The ship’s ...

An exhibition that tells the stories of African people who lived ... from the mid-1500s – during the transatlantic slave ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...