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Where bees are bringing former coal miners hope for the future but 1st the legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and how some of their descendants are returning to the continent their ancestors came from. For hundreds of years the trade in african slaves was a lucrative business the consequences for the continent were horrendous entire areas were stripped of their populations millions of africans died either when their villages were attacked or on the long journey from the interior of the continent to the coast the ones who made it were packed together like cattle and the holds of slave ships for a journey that often took many weeks most ended up in brazil the caribbean and the us from the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 19th around 2000000 people died at sea during the crossing between 10 and. 12000000 survived the horrific voyage. After arrival abducted africans were sold on many to the owners of plantations where they were forced to work for the rest of their li