slavery in north africa

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The exploration of the coasts of Africa, the discovery of America in the 15th century and its colonization in the following three centuries, boosted the slave trade. In the 16th century, the Spanish were the first to bring enslaved Africans to North America as part of their colonization efforts in Florida and the Carolinas.

Slavery in North Africa

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Is the world’s largest warm desert and the third largest after Antarctica and the Arctic. Covering more than 9,400,000 km² it covers most of North Africa, occupying an area almost as large as that of China or the United States.

The Sahara Desert

James Riley was the captain of the United States merchant ship Commerce.Riley led his crew through the Sahara Desert, after they were shipwrecked off the coast of contemporary Western Sahara in August 1815, and wrote a memoir about their ordeal.

James Riley