... between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean, once a formidable barrier that prevented regular interaction between those peoples inhabiting the four continents it touched, became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas for the first time ... ". (3) Many similar incidents could be cited from the Americas side of the Atlantic. And on board a slave ship with all the slaves always black and the crew largely whit...

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