NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost.

The book is based on new material found in Portuguese ... These are all central to global history. The Atlantic slave trade began in 1415 and ran for four and a half centuries.

It’s the world of the Atlantic slave trade, of Africans being moved by the boatload. DAVID:Portugal and Spain began trading enslaved Africans across the Atlantic in 1502, and the very first ...