Claim: Slave raiding, capture and trading in the Mandinka regions may have existed in significant numbers before the European colonial era, as is evidenced in the memoirs of the 14th century Moroccan traveler and Islamic historian and the slave shipment between 1501-1867 shows that in the Kongo people region, 5.69 million were embarked, in the Bight of Benin two million were embarked and in Bight of Biafra 1.6 million were embarked.
Evidence: Slave raiding, capture and trading in the Mandinka regions may have existed in significant numbers before the European colonial era, as is evidenced in the memoirs of the 14th century Moroccan traveller and Islamic historian Ibn Battuta. Slave shipment between 1501–1867, by region 5.69 million 2.00 million 1.6 million