Slave Trade (Noun)
Meaning
Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The transatlantic slave trade was a brutal system in which enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas to work on plantations.
- The European powers that dominated the slave trade during the 18th century were Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
- The horrors of the slave trade were often hidden from public view, but the testimony of former slaves like Olaudah Equiano brought attention to the issue.
- The Triangular Trade, also known as the slave trade, involved the exchange of goods, services, and slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Abolitionists in both Britain and the United States fought against the slave trade throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.