WEST AFRICAN KINGDOMS: THE KINGDOM OF GHANA ... At the same time they discouraged people from going to North Africa to further their studies in the Islamic institutes of higher learning there ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ...