a period of four hundred hits that s the trans atlantic slave trade it was the largest forced migration in human history now on the international day of remembrance of the victims of slavery the united nations secretary general antonio would terrorist paid homage and called oust today s inequalities together with our stand against all the new forms of slavery by raising awareness of the danger of mass is when our time and mine shooting just recently equal opportunities for all people of african descent to do. many africans sold into captivity left from west african slave trade hubs such as henri island in senegal nigeria and from we ve been in now for more than a million people of these steps with the last they would take on african soil before being forced aboard a slave ship today the door of no return remembers this painful part of african