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slave trade

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slave trade, slave trafficnoun

    traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries

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  1. slave tradenoun

    traffic in slaves

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  1. slave trade

    The slave trade refers to the historical practice of capturing, transporting, and selling individuals into slavery, typically from African countries to various parts of the world, particularly European colonies in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It involves a systematic process of forced migration, human rights abuses, and commodification of human beings for labor. It is widely recognized for its role in the development of the contemporary racial hierarchy and resulting economic and social disparities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slave trade in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slave trade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of slave trade in a Sentence

  1. Kathleen Bickford Berzock:

    It tells us a lot about the world we live in today to understand the long history of exchange and interaction on a global scale, it also helps people think about the history of Africa before western involvement in things like the Atlantic slave trade.

  2. Caroline Addy:

    Like many areas of the country, the City of London has a number of statues and other landmarks with links to the slave trade and historic racism, it's important that we acknowledge and address this legacy with openness and honesty, and carefully consider what should be done.

  3. Lonnie Bunch:

    The Sao Jose is all the more significant because it represents one of the earliest attempts to bring East Africans into the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- a shift that played a major role in prolonging that tragic trade for decades.

  4. Robert Cotterell:

    There is a fragility of people who are still refusing to accept that racism is the world's number one pandemic. Still people don't even know what racism is or about England's major role in the slave trade.

  5. Stef Blok:

    It was CNN that drove the attention to this terrible slave trade that has been going on in Libya for far too long, as The Netherlands is currently a member of the Security Council, we proposed to them to impose United Nations on six of the worst perpetrators -- and that will mean that this crime won't be left unpunished.


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