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The African authorities deny that a slave trade even exists and David must find help in a shadowy world where the rescuers of slaves are as ruthless as the traders. As David tracks Anansa across Africa and the Sahara desert, he is helped by a member of the Anti-Slavery League , a mercenary helicopter pilot and Malik, an Indian who seeks revenge ...
Using modern-day slave-trading and set in Africa, a white doctor goes on a journey to find his wife who was mistaken for a native woman and kidnapped by slave traders while swimming. Getting no help from the police or the local authorities, the doctor gets a lead and tracks his missing wife across the country with a couple of allies.
The Middle Passage (French: Passage du milieu) is a 2000 docudrama film directed by Guy Deslauriers about the trans-Atlantic voyage of black slaves from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean, a part of the triangular slave trade route called the Middle Passage.
Mona is unaware of the history of West African slave forts like Cape Coast Castle in the slave trade [3] because she has been disconnected from her African roots for so long. While Mona is on the beach modeling, she encounters the mysterious old man Sankofa who was playing the drums at the beginning of the film.
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter.
According to Meilan Solly of Smithsonian, Dahomey was "a key player" in the Atlantic slave trade; it began the sale of West African captives to Europeans in the late 17th and the early 18th centuries. [86] In 1727, Dahomey seized the port city of Ouidah, which became the second-largest supplier of captives in the slave trade. Between 1659 and ...
Kuperman claims overthrowing Gadhafi led to many of the failed nation's issues, including the slave trade. An investigation from CNN showed migrants being sold for as little as $400 at auction.
Mandingo is a 1975 American historical melodrama film that focuses on the Atlantic slave trade in the Antebellum South.The film's title refers to the Mandinka people, who are referred to as "Mandingos", and described as being good slaves for fighting matches.