SLAVE TRADE Definition & Meaning

slave trade

noun

the business or process of capturing, transporting, and selling human beings into chattel slavery, especially Black Africans brought to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.

slave trade

noun

the business of trading in slaves, esp the transportation of Black Africans to America from the 16th to 19th centuries

slave trade

The transportation of slaves from Africa to North and South America between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Congress banned the importing of slaves into the United States in 1808.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of slave trade¹

First recorded in 1725–35

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That project began in 2019 as a one-off album recorded in a small Louisiana studio, of songs inspired by the transatlantic slave trade and the suffering and often unheard voices of Black women.

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We see that most egregiously, of course, in the transatlantic slave trade and the extermination or resettlement of Indigenous communities.

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“Dandyism was imposed on Black men in Europe during the 1700s, as the Atlantic slave trade created a trend in fashionably dressed, or dandified, servants,” Miller continues.

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Others, such as the creation of a database of the transatlantic slave trade, have touched the lives of millions and changed how the history of the U.S. and its peoples is understood.

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Azuka was inspired to write the play after a visit to Cardiff's Llanrumney Hall where she first learnt about Wales' connection to the Atlantic slave trade.

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