The years 1450-1750 brought enormous changes to the ... where they began a trans-Atlantic slave trade that would bring millions of Africans to the Americas as well. This slave trade would over ...

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 ...

1450 and 1700. We will trace how those relationships changed with growing commercial dependence on the transatlantic slave trade, along with its devastating effects on military conflict, spiritual ...