The Slave Route Project is a UNESCO initiative that was officially launched in 1994 in Ouidah, Benin. It is rooted in the mandate of the organization,...

ideal for a slave trade of war captives sold along the trade routes. In the early Middle Ages, the Byzantine Empire imported slaves from the Vikings, who...

been working to break the silence surrounding the memory of slavery since 1994, through The Slave Route Project. On May 21, 2001, the National Assembly of...

required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions. The Atlantic slave trade used...

Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th...

trade. This ended the old import routes of slaves to Europe, which contributed to the development of the Atlantic slave trade to provide the European colonies...

the Islamic Middle East, from the 7th-century Early Middle Ages until the mid-15th century. It was one of the routes of the Venetian slave trade. The...

was one route for saqaliba slaves to al-Andalus. Similarly to al-Andalus, the Duchy of Bohemia was a state in a religious border zone, in the case of...

Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for thousands of years. When clove...

overland slave caravan routes across the Sahara from the Sahel to North Africa. The German explorer Gustav Nachtigal reported seeing slave caravans departing...