How to Use slave trade in a Sentence
slave trade
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The peak year for the transatlantic slave trade was 1829.
— Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2022 -
One play was about the evils of slavery and the slave trade.
— Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021 -
The same is true to learning about the slave trade, about Jim Crow laws.
— Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022 -
The slave trade shifted westward along the African coast.
— David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022 -
The big fight with the Oyo that Dahomey goes through, and the slave trade—that was all based on fact.
— Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2022 -
The series starts in the country of Benin in West Africa, a hub of the Transatlantic slave trade.
— Washington Post, 24 May 2021 -
The scope of the transatlantic slave trade was staggering.
— Chris Searles, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020 -
The city controlled 40 percent of the slave trade in the late 18th century.
— BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021 -
McCrear may well have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.
— Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 14 Dec. 2020 -
Still, the screws on the slave trade were steadily tightening.
— James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021 -
Sometimes, it was even used as currency in the slave trade.
— Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023 -
Elsewhere, the Netherlands has apologized for its role in the slave trade.
— Time, 6 July 2023 -
That includes Cape Coast Castle, which was a hub of the transatlantic slave trade.
— Forrest Brown, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022 -
African people were displaced throughout the world as a result of the slave trade.
— Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021 -
So, when the Atlantic slave trade happened, we were not allowed to practice any of the African Gods.
— Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023 -
And the Texas killing fields and Juneteenth and the slave trade, that whole area has, in my eyes, sort of a dark cloud of history on top of it.
— ELLE, 6 Jan. 2022 -
The descendants of Haitians were deported during the slave trade from the gulf of Benin.
— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024 -
There will now be a plaque explaining his role in the slave trade, the museum said.
— Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 June 2021 -
Because of the transatlantic slave trade, we’ve been stripped of our identity in so many ways.
— Anna Katherine Clemmons, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022 -
Great inhumanities that were done to us by the British during the slave trade.
— Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2022 -
His subjects, from the slave trade to the war of Greek independence, suggest a man on the side of reform.
— Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022 -
The part of the trip that stood out the most was a visit to Gorée Island — a tiny island off the coast of Senegal known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
— Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022 -
In July, King Willem-Alexander apologized for the country’s role in the slave trade.
— Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2023 -
The Igbo culture of entrepreneurship can be traced back to the slave trade in the 15th century.
— Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021 -
These efforts not only ended the slave trade in the United States, but helped close the trade to Cuba as well.
— John Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021 -
We are descended from the Transatlantic African slave trade.
— Keith Magee, CNN, 24 May 2021 -
New England colonies played a critical role in the transatlantic slave trade.
— Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2021 -
The city had played a key role in financing the slave trade and was the site of fierce resistance to integration.
— Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023 -
Charles didn’t directly speak about reparations for the Atlantic slave trade, in which Britain took a leading role.
— Simon Perry, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024 -
Leaders ended the week-long summit in Samoa, saying the time had come for a discussion on whether Britain should commit to reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.
— Max Foster, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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