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C.H.A.T. Line · African STEM

Stolen Science:

Sought After Skills During The Atlantic Slave Trade

European enslavers, and planters deliberately targeted specific West African coastal and interior communities based on unique populations possessing highly specialized, advanced trade knowledge and skills. Below is a list of some of the African populations targeted, arranged by category of expertise.

Select a tile to open its exhibit. Each panel opens with its image and can be read aloud. This gallery reads major turning points of the Atlantic trade as moments of cultural and intellectual reanchoring — knowledge entering a new historical record through the people who refused to let it disappear.