1.   Agitating by abolitionists led many owners to sell their slaves to speculators.

2.   Historians tell us that black Africans willingly sold slaves to the West and that free blacks throughout early America bought and owned them.

3.   Historians tell us that black Africans willingly sold slaves to the West and that free blacks throughout the colonies bought and owned them.

4.   In Mauritania selling your slaves is an admission of economic desperation to which no self-respecting master would stoop.

5.   In sugar plantation days, this was one of the places where African slaves were sold when they first came off the ships.

6.   Khartoum sends armed raider-trains southward, to take and sell slaves, and grab food sent to war victims by international organizations.

7.   Unfortunately, there is evidence that many of these slave redemptions are the result of trickery, with fake slave traders selling make-believe slaves many times over.

8.   The ship was christened with water from Cuba, Long Island and Sierra Leone -- where the slaves were sold, captured by American authorities and finally returned home.