If you attended school in North America, there’s a good chance that you learned at least a little something about the Transatlantic slave trade, where millions of Africans were stolen from their homes and sent to the Americas to be slaves. But did you know that there was another route these people could have gone? Lasting for much longer than the more commonly known Transatlantic slave trade, the Arab slave trade stole people primarily from West, North, and Southeast Africa.