... European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a large number died before reaching the coast. About 9 to 10 million Africans survived the Atlantic crossing to be purchased by planters and traders in the New World, where they worked principally as slave laborers in plantation economies requiring a ... directly with slave suppliers who built small trading posts, or "factories," on the coast. European shippers were thus able to circumvent the Trans-Saharan caravan slave trade. The slave t...

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