Slave Trade
Definition
The Slave Trade refers to the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, particularly African people to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
Analogy
Imagine a cruel game where players (slave traders) forcibly take characters from their home server (Africa), transport them to a new server (the Americas), and force them into hard labor without any rewards. This is similar to how slave trade worked.
Related terms
Middle Passage: The part of the trade where Africans were densely packed onto ships and transported across Atlantic Ocean.
Triangular Trade: A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
Abolitionism: Movement in western countries during late 18th to 19th centuries that aimed at ending slavery.
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How did the Columbian Exchange contribute to the expansion of the slave trade?
The large-scale slave trade via shipping routes later known as what emerged from the Columbian exchange?
Which product significantly boosted the slave trade due to its high demand in Europe?
Who were primarily responsible for transporting Africans to America during slave trade?
Which aspect of European economies was largely shaped by the slave trade during the colonial period?
Which factor most likely influenced European merchants’ decisions to engage in the Slave Trade during the 15th century?
How did the Slave Trade affect African societies between the 15th and 19th centuries?
Had the British not abolished the slave trade in 1807, which outcome might have been most likely to occur within European society?
Who among the following philosophers argued that capitalism was inherently linked to slavery, thus underscoring the Marxist perspective on the slave trade?
Which legislation initiated by Britain aimed at ending slave trade in the early nineteenth century?
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