Whichever is true, many historians note that the numbers of enslaved Africans who died at sea were so great that sharks learned to follow the slave routes because they fed on the bodies thrown overboard.

Traders, I have learned, ply the slave routes between this world and Earth.

The mystic Ibini Ukpabi shrine, the slave routes and other relics of the slave trade era are frequently visited by tourists.

There is a former slave route near the market.

More particularly, all five served on the slave route between the West Indies and Africa.

Farther upstream, we visited Juffure, another important village on the slave route.

African monarchs also sent their children along these same slave routes to be educated in Europe, and thousands of former slaves eventually returned to settle Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Muslims are concentrated in coastal areas and in mainland areas along former slave routes.

The old slave route still of course operates in Africa unfortunately.

Nine slave routes traversed Ghana.