The trans-Saharan trade was never a large significant enough to affect the demographic of West Africa or the North African societies that acquired slaves. Slaves were rarely bought by Arab raiders but most of the time they were bought by North African merchants who bought the slaves from African merchants in the trading towns of the savannah and Sahel. This crime against humanity also known as the Atlantic slave trade was a force of migration for about 15 million people from Africa to the western Hemisphere, in the mid-15th century 15 the 19th century. The slave trade led to a violent transportation overseas and death to millions of African, the specific number of deaths in the slave trade is unknown. There was kidnapping of many Africans that occurred in the region that is known and stretches from Senegal to Angola. The imprisonment and transportation were horrendous conditions in the voyage from Africa to the
The trans-Saharan trade was never a large significant enough to affect the demographic of West Africa or the North African societies that acquired slaves. Slaves were rarely bought by Arab raiders but most of the time they were bought by North African merchants who bought the slaves from African merchants in the trading towns of the savannah and Sahel. This crime against humanity also known as the Atlantic slave trade was a force of migration for about 15 million people from Africa to the western Hemisphere, in the mid-15th century 15 the 19th century. The slave trade led to a violent transportation overseas and death to millions of African, the specific number of deaths in the slave trade is unknown. There was kidnapping of many Africans that occurred in the region that is known and stretches from Senegal to Angola. The imprisonment and transportation were horrendous conditions in the voyage from Africa to the