A MEDITERRANEAN IN MOVEMENT. SLAVES AND COMMERCE ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT (16TH, 17TH, 18TH CENTURIES)

During the Modern Age, the Berber corsairs attacks in the Mediterranean and the African Atlantic against the main European powers led to a significant trafficking of men and merchandise. Slave trading in these waters, the outcome of this conflict, generated a dense network of intermediaries from all kinds of places and of all religions, who extracted large profits from it. These could offset the enormous outlay they had to get from Europe to the distant, unexplored territories of Africa.