An estimated 12.5 million African men, women, and children were enslaved and taken to the Americas over the course of 400 years. The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of human beings in world history. By the late 18th century, more Africans had crossed the ocean to the Americas than Europeans. The global trade had economic, political, social and demographic implications, which are still visible today. The human cost was juxtaposed with the power and profit generated by t