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This chapter examines African women in the Atlantic slave trade, exploring what scholars know about their experiences in the trade and highlighting what remains to be known. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean. Women made up a large portion of those enslaved. The chapter considers the history of enslaved African women, considering how gender affected their experience, how women coped and resisted their enslavement, and how their lives were transformed by the trade.
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Blyden, N. (2019). African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade. In: Yacob-Haliso, O., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_6-1
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