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 History Did you know that the mortality rate for the Middle Passage - the journey from West Africa across the Atlantic - reached up to 20%, roughly equal to the death rate in Europe during the Black Death?
Or that by 1750 British ships were transporting around 3.4 million enslaved Africans on around 12,000 voyages? Listen to "The Instant Guide" for more facts and figures about the British Atlantic Slave Trade.  Listen to the programme
Slavey and Sierra Leone Sierra Leone came into being as a country because of the slave trade; many slave-holding posts lined its coast where captured slaves were shackled in dungeons to await transportation to slave masters abroad. For Network Africa Umaru Fofana visited Bunce Island, a derelict former trading post close to the capital Freetown.  Listen to a tour of Bunce Island
Freedom in Africa Sierra Leone's capital is an important symbol of the abolition of the trade. Freetown is so named because following the Abolition Act 200 years ago, the "recaptives", as the freed slaves were known, were take to Sierra Leone and given their freedom. For Network Africa Umaru Fofana took Olu Awoonor-Gordon, a historian and descendant of freed slaves, to the passage through which the former slaves passed to regain their freedom. Listen to an account of freed slaves return
The East African Slave Trade East Africa has been marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the Arab slave trade. The trade on the East African coast reached its peak in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, just when the abolitionist movement in Europe and America was gaining momentum. During this time, Arab slave traders established a holding port in the town of Shimoni on the Kenyan coast where slaves were held before being shipped to the slave market on the island of Zanzibar. For Network Africa Kevin Mwachiro toured the Shimoni historical caves on the Kenyan coast. Listen to an account of the East African slave trade
Benin's slave past One of the most important slave posts from which slaves were taken is in the Beninois town of Ouidah. For Network Africa Benin correspondent Esther Tola was shown around the town by Martine DeSouza, a descendant of a slave merchant, she shares her feelings. Listen to Esther
The Middle Passage To understand more about what was endured by slaves on their sea-journey west, Emma Joseph visited The Barbados Museum in the capital Bridgetown for Network Africa. Museum director, Alexandra Cummins took her round, she begins with the display documenting the horrifying conditions under which slaves were transported by sea from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas. Listen to an account of the Middle Passage
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