Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...
In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...
The slave trade was a heinous malpractice that ... for people who were abducted from various regions of West Africa before ...
Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) as a particularly African institution. The association between Africa and slavery emerged in the ...
Long before the establishment of Jamestown ... Founded in 1672, the Royal African Company was granted a similar monopoly in the slave trade. Between 1680 and 1686, the Company transported an ...