 In the end, the Africans who made the journey would have survived disease, malnutrition, confined space, close death, and the trauma of the ship.In Algiers during the time of the Regency of Algiers in North Africa in the 19th century, 1.5 million Christians and Europeans were captured and forced into slavery.This eventually led to the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 by the British and Dutch, forcing the Dey of Algiers to free many slaves.