These ports traded slaves who were supplied from African communities, tribes and kingdoms, including the Alladah and Ouidah, which were later taken over by the Dahomey kingdom. On the second leg, ships made the journey of the Middle Passage from Africa to the New World. Many slaves died of disease in the crowded holds of the slave ships. Once

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Occasionally, the African captives successfully revolted and took over the ships. The most famous such incident occurred in 1839 when an enslaved African named Joseph Cinqué led a mutiny on the Spanish slave ship Amistad, killing the captain and two members of the crew. The ship was intercepted off New

Without the slave trade from Africa, the British-owned economies in the West Indies would have collapsed. Bristol’s involvement in the slave trade. Bristol’s participation in the slave trade stretches at least as far back as the eleventh century. Irish and English slaves were routinely sold in the port from this time until the 1100s.

It has long been known that some African tribal chieftains and their underlings collaborated with the slave traders, who were chiefly English, French, Dutch and North American, but the assumption

By Professor J. F. Ade Ajayi. "development remains elusive in Africa, not merely because of the misrule and warped personalities of many African leaders, but because Africa had been damaged severely, first by the slave trade, then by the colonialism which grew out of the slave trade."

western Africa. Western Africa - Slave Trade, Colonization, Resistance: All the estimates for the volume of the Atlantic slave trade that have been given so far are for numbers of slaves landed in the Americas, as such numbers are generally more readily ascertainable than figures for slaves leaving Africa. A fair proportion of these slaves

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