slave trade
noun
: trafficking of enslaved people
especially, in U.S. history
: the business or practice of capturing, transporting, selling, and buying enslaved African people for profit prior to the American Civil War
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Decades of campaigning by 18th-century abolitionists led to the slave trade’s ban in the British Empire in 1807.
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Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
As a critical entryway for the transatlantic slave trade, the Port of New Orleans was an arrival point for many African people.
—Ebony Flake, Essence, 28 June 2024
For the descendants of the survivors of the transatlantic slave trade, our family histories are cruelly locked in a vault of time by no fault of our own.
—Keyaira Kelly, refinery29.com, 19 June 2024
Various field peas, such as the purple and black-eyed peas, were transported from West Africa to the Americas by way of the transatlantic slave trade.
—Omar Tate, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2024
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Devoney Looser, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
As a critical entryway for the transatlantic slave trade, the Port of New Orleans was an arrival point for many African people.
—Ebony Flake, Essence, 28 June 2024
For the descendants of the survivors of the transatlantic slave trade, our family histories are cruelly locked in a vault of time by no fault of our own.
—Keyaira Kelly, refinery29.com, 19 June 2024
Various field peas, such as the purple and black-eyed peas, were transported from West Africa to the Americas by way of the transatlantic slave trade.
—Omar Tate, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2024
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“Slave trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20trade. Accessed 30 Sep. 2024.
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