During the Atlantic Slave Trade, 9. 4 to 12 million people from North, West, West-Central and South-east Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Western Hemisphere as slaves.

Slave traders scoured the Atlantic coast of Africa, and the slaves who arrived came from hundreds of different tribes, their languages often mutually incomprehensible.

Danita Rountree Green, in her book Broom Jumping: A Celebration of Love, admits there is no recognized documentation suggesting that ethnic groups in Ghana, who were prominent in the Atlantic Slave Trade, ever jumped over the broom.

* The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 – 1870 by Hugh Thomas.

* Manu Herbstein, South African author of Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Britain outlawed the slave trade on 29 March 1807 with the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the British Navy operating from Freetown took active measures to stop the Atlantic slave trade.

* Walter Rodney, " African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave Trade ".

The abolition of slavery in America led to the breakdown of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was already suffering from the abolition of slavery in most of Europe in the late 1820s and ' 30s.

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 – 1870 ( 2006 )

* Joao Jose Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia ( Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture ), Johns Hopkins Univ Press 1993

In these three years, Agaja had more than doubled the territory of Dahomey, had secured access to the Atlantic coast, and had become a prominent power along the Slave Coast.

Much of the African diaspora was dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas during the Atlantic and Arab Slave Trades.

Because of the massive die-off of the indigenous people, the Atlantic Slave Trade was established to import the labor required for the extraction of resources ( such as gold and silver ) and farming.

The Atlantic Slave Trade brought some balafon players to the Americas.

Slave traders scoured the Atlantic coast of Africa, and the slaves who arrived came from hundreds of different tribes, their languages often mutually incomprehensible.

Former Prime Minister Owen S. Arthur was chosen from among leaders around the globe to deliver the William Wilberforce lecture on the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Act.

* Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

In the West, the name commonly evoked the Barbary pirates and Barbary Slave Traders based on that coast, who attacked ships and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic and captured and traded slaves or goods from Europe, America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Manu Herbstein ( born 1936 ) is the South African author of Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade ( 2001 ), which won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the first time the award had been given to an electronic book.

* Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

This was followed by Black Cargoes, A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade ( 1962 ), Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age ( 1966 ), Think Back on Us ( 1967 ), Collected Poems ( 1968 ), Lesson of the Masters ( 1971 ) and A Second Flowering ( 1973 ).

Historical connotation of the region with both the African and the Atlantic slave trade, was high to the point of the region becoming known as the Slave Coast.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

The Czech Republic participates in the United Nations ( UN ); World Trade Organization ( WTO ); International Monetary Fund ( IMF ); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ); International Energy Agency ( IEA ); North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the International Whaling Commission.

The summer Trade Winds and winter swells of the Atlantic make this a year-round surfers ' paradise, with more exposed areas on the north and west shores such as Corralejo and El Cotillo proving most popular.

The country was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization ( GATT / WTO ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), and the Council of Europe.

In addition to its participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace program, Moldova is also a member state of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Francophonie and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The island was directly in line with the Trade Winds which took ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope into the South Atlantic.

Albania is a member of more than 48 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation., the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

Portugal is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ), and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).

Portugal, during this period, was never an outcast, and was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), the post-war independence of British and French possessions, and much more are derived from the Atlantic Charter.

In March 2007, he confessed to masterminding the September 11 attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and various foiled attacks.

She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

This voyage was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic under steam propulsion.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.

The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

* In 1952, Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean.

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

* In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean ( with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados ).

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

Peter B. deMenocal, has shown there was an influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the stream flow of the Tigris and Euphrates at this time, which led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire ".

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

The name was also changed to Atlantic Baptist University, a reflection of expanded student enrollment and academic accreditation.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.