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 ...

The 1788 Slave Trade Act was introduced to try to improve ... This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete ...

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 ...