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slave trade
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Princeton's WordNet
slave trade, slave trafficnoun
traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries
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slave tradenoun
traffic in slaves
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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slave trade in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slave trade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of slave trade in a Sentence
Both the Prime Minister and his Home Secretary seemed more occupied about statues of slave traders being toppled than the death toll from the Atlantic slave trade.
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.
They should have a specific museum for those monuments and statues - a museum that portrays the history of slave-owners, the history of the transatlantic slave trade is very cruel, it's not a good thing. However, we have to remember what happened in the past so we don't repeat what happened.
Those African people who were on that ship were specifically sold in a trading transaction that we now recognize as something that became common during the transatlantic slave trade, there were African people in America before that date but not having been sold in the same specific way.
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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