1. Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
History often likes to portray all Africans of this time period as helpless victims when in actuality come of them were just as, if not more, ruthless in the slave trade than their European counterparts. ... While the exact number of individuals who were enslaved and brought to the western hemisphere will be forever unknown, it has been studied where in Africa they originated from and estimates have been made based on how many people arrived. ... There were eight primary areas used by Europeans slave traders and Africans to obtain and import slave natives to the Western Hemisphere. ... Unfortu...
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