Meaning of slave trade in English

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  2. Noun
    1. Definitions

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  1. Noun

    slave trade

    Definitions

    1. traffic in slaves

    Examples

    • « especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries »

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  • « Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere. »
    Charles Rangel
  • « The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. »
    Henry Louis Gates

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