<span>Enslaved Africans traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to America by way of the "Middle Passage," since this was part of the "Triangle Trade" that existed between the New World, Africa, and Europe. </span>
It was a stage of the triangular trade known as the Atlantic slave trade. On this stage, millions of African slaves were transported to America. Once the arrived in the New World the slaves were traded or sold for raw materials which then would be transported to Europe.
The European powers divided almost the entirety of Africa among themselves after the Berlin Conference. Arbitrary borders that ignored Africa's history and ethnicities were drawn, and many of those borders live up to this day, causing conflict in the continent.
