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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.