The third and last section is coordinated by Paul Lovejoy. The focus is on the life stories of Africans and Afrodescendants victimized by slavery and the slave trade. The biographies of men and women present African diasporas in their most human and representative aspects. They cover a wide geographical area, including Brazil, Guadeloupe, Mexico, United States of America, Sierra Leone, Benin, Calabar, Angola, Mozambique, the Ottoman Empire, France and England. The section's collaborators narrate the experiences of Juan Correa (a baroque painter in Mexico); Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges (a musician born in Guadeloupe and educated in France); Olaudah Equiano (an African-born sailor and abolitionist); Osifekunde of Ijebu (a domestic worker in Brazil and France); Ana Joaquina dos Santos e Silva (a slave trader in Angola); Nicholas Said (a soldier from Borno who worked in different cities in North Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Americas); Nadir Agha (an Abyssinian eunuch in Istanbul); Gracia Maria da Conceição Magalhães, also known as Gracia Guiné (a manioc flour merchant in Rio de Janeiro); and others. These African diaspora figures played various roles that enabled them to enjoy a usually more rewarding life experience than most individuals of their ilk. This section highlights the study of these individuals and raises questions about the various paths that enslaved Africans followed while retaining and recreating in different ways, despite tremendous restraints, at least some of their cultural backgrounds.