Authors and researchers from various sciences, notably archaeology, have become interested in the question of slavery and the possibility that its beginnings are linked to prehistory has appeared, from the analysis of the remains of the funerary archaeology. The presence of servants and slaves has always been part of the public life of ancient historical civilizations in Eurasia as well as Africa, their manifestations have been revealed in accounts from Islamic, medieval and modern eras. Africa experienced the phenomenon of slavery based on various archaeological evidence from archaeological sites and historical monuments such as caves, theaters and mosaics, depictions of African servants and slaves also appeared in objects transferred from icons, statues and inscriptions. Today they are on display in museums in Africa and around the world, while colonial-era cemeteries in North America, South America and the West Indies contain evidence of skeletal remains of slaves from the trade Atlantic, revealed by natural factors such as tornado that hit struck Guadalupe, necessitating salvage excavations that led to the creation of colonial slave archeology to restore one of the ugliest forms of slavery in human history.

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