← 3.3 Trans Saharan Slave Trade

What was the Trans-Saharan slave trade?

Social Studies · Grade 8 · about 40 minutes

How Trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt also marched people north, and how this differs from Atlantic and Indian Ocean trades studied before.

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