Figure 7.12: Map of the African slave trade. The origin of the African slave trade is indigenous and predates Islam. Outside of Africa, many slave markets were established around the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean and eventually, after 1500 C.E., millions of slaves were brought to the Americas.
[Sources consulted: Joseph H. Harris, in Monica B. Visona et al., A History of Art in Africa (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001), pp. 502–