Synonyms for slave trade
slave trade

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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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   slave traffic

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Chris Patten:

   Our cities are full of buildings that were built with the proceeds of activities, the slave trade and so on, which would nowadays be regarded as completely unacceptable.

4. 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.

5. Diane Abbott:

   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.