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. 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.

2. Rebecca Nelson:

   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.

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. 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. Anthony Bouadi:

   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.