Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

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A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade Over the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 ...