| Nowhere in the
annals of history has a people experienced such a long and traumatic
ordeal as Africans during the Atlantic slave trade. Over the nearly
four centuries of the slave - which continued until the end of the
Civil War - millions of African men, women, and children were
savagely torn from their homeland, herded onto ships, and dispersed
all over the so-called New World. Although there is no way to
compute exactly how many people perished, it has been estimated that
between thirty and sixty million Africans were subjected to this
horrendous triangular trade system and that only one third-if
that-of those people survived...' |
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