Why did disease spread so rapidly on slave ships?

How did the early Europeans usually obtain their supply of slaves?

In the hierarchal society of West Africa, slavery _______.

________was a practice on slavers that doubled the number of “cargo” in slave vessels to try and offset economic losses.

Dr. Louis Gates believes that African victims of the slave trade were captured by Europeans and sold to slave traders for markets in the West Indies.

West Africans did not practice slavery before the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century.

The middle kingdom era was known of the age of democratization and when literature reached its highest level.

What was not a general characteristic of the western Sudanese kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai?

The Islamic religion in West Africa ________.

In West African culture, the family includes those who are yet to be born, those who have died, as well as those who are alive.