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Photographer: Courtesy Les Anneaux de la Mémoire
Caption: Marker detail: Slave Trade Paths
Additional Description: The Portuguese were the first European navigators to use knowledge of winds and currents to establish a triangular trade route between Europe, Africa and the Americas.

From ancient times, trade in commodities and slave labor existed between Europeans, North Africans and Arabs. The slaves were from Mediterranean areas and sub-Saharan Africa.

Sailors from the southern coast of the Arabian peninsula utilized winds and currents to develop a slave trade from Africa to India and the Far East as early as the Middle Ages.
Submitted: February 15, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p510176
File Size: 1.493 Megabytes

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