slave trade
Forced labor commerce
The slave trade is the business of capturing, transporting, and selling human beings as property.
The term most often refers to the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th through 19th centuries, when millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
The phrase can describe any systematic commerce in enslaved people: The Arab slave trade predated the European one by centuries.
Transatlantic slave trade crossing
- auctionCompetitive public sale
- human cargoPeople moved as property
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
markets · importation · exportation · traders · profitability · investment · monopoly · tariffs
Domination through foreign settlement
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- European empiresNations that colonized globally
- African kingdomsPre-colonial continental states
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
New World · Age of Discovery · maritime · historiography · primary sources · archives · indentured servitude · sugar plantations
Release from legal bondage
- WilberforceBritish antislavery campaigner
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
Lincoln · abolitionists · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Garrison · Stowe · antislavery · Quakers
Middle Passage
Transatlantic slave trade crossing
- auctionCompetitive public sale
- human cargoPeople moved as property
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
commodities · markets · importation · exportation · traders · profitability · investment · monopoly · tariffs · shipping
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- European empiresNations that colonized globally
- African kingdomsPre-colonial continental states
transatlantic · New World · Age of Discovery · maritime · historiography · primary sources · archives · indentured servitude · sugar plantations · cotton economy
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- WilberforceBritish antislavery campaigner
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
Thirteenth Amendment · Lincoln · abolitionists · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Garrison · Stowe · antislavery · Quakers · proclamation
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, Great Depression, gold standard, Silk Road
- slaverybondage, chattel, thrall, Middle Passage, slaveholders
- trade historycommerce, merchant, traders, colonial economy, merchant ships
- ancient tradeSilk Road, caravan routes, sea routes, river routes, maritime routes
- Atlantic HistoryAtlantic crossing, transatlantic crossing, Columbus, Battle of the Atlantic, Spanish conquest
- Portuguese EmpirePortugal, Vasco da Gama, Age of Discovery, Goa, Angola
slave tradefree movement
Unrestricted ability to travel
labor migration · labor mobility · economic migration · brain drain
slave tradeemancipation
Release from legal bondage
abolition · human rights · manumission · liberation · abolitionism
slave tradeabolitionism
Movement to end oppression
emancipation movement · Underground Railroad · manumission · antislavery movement · freedom movement
trade, slave, trader, trading, slavery, slaves, tradesman, trade-off, enslave