SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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slave auction
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slave trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -slave trade, the capturing, selling, and buying of enslaved persons. Slavery has existed throughout the world since ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -noun. : trafficking of enslaved people. especially, in U.S. history : the business or practice of capturing, transporting, selling, and buying enslaved African people for profit prior to the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -The slave trade began in the seventeenth century. A triangular slave trade was between Europe, Africa and the Americas. bought slaves from local chieftains. The exploitation of slave labour made it possible to meet the markets for sugar, coffee, and indigo.