Atlantic slave trade
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The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the trade of African people supplied to the colonies of the "New World" that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th century to the 19th century. Most slaves were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa and taken to the New World (primarily Brazil). Some slaves were captured by European slave traders through raids and kidnapping, but most were obtained through coastal trading with Africans.
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See also
- Arab slave trade
- Atlantic history
- Atlantic slave trade to Brazil
- Barbary slave trade
- Bristol slave trade (UK)
- Edward Colston
- History of slavery
- Indian indenture system
- Indian Ocean slave trade
- Liverpool slave trade
- Piracy
- The Slave Route Project
- Slave Trade Acts
- Slavery in Africa
- Slavery in Britain
- Slavery in Canada
- Slavery in contemporary Africa
- Slavery in the colonial United States
- Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
- Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies
- Slavery in the United States
- Tobacco and Slaves (1986 book)
- Trans-Saharan slave trade
- United States labor law
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