slave trade
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
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View Recipe The color red symbolizing blood sed by our ancestors also speaks to the color as a symbol of strength and spiritual significance that predates the slave trade.
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Omar Tate, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2024
Crops native to Africa, such as watermelon, okra, yams, black-eyed peas, kola nuts (the basis for Coca-Cola), hibiscus, sesame, muskmelons (like cantaloupe and honeydew), and most significantly, African rice, were transported on ships with enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
—Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
The rodents likely arrived in the late 1700s, when a French ship—carrying Malagasy people kidnapped for the slave trade—wrecked there, says Matthieu Le Corre, an ecologist at the University of Reunion Island, a French overseas region off the coast of Madagascar.
—Ethan Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
Through speculative fiction, Jackson confronts the racialization and sexualization of Black bodies, honoring the survivors of the transatlantic slave trade while envisioning a world of powerful, resilient women.
—Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024
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Omar Tate, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2024
Crops native to Africa, such as watermelon, okra, yams, black-eyed peas, kola nuts (the basis for Coca-Cola), hibiscus, sesame, muskmelons (like cantaloupe and honeydew), and most significantly, African rice, were transported on ships with enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
—Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
The rodents likely arrived in the late 1700s, when a French ship—carrying Malagasy people kidnapped for the slave trade—wrecked there, says Matthieu Le Corre, an ecologist at the University of Reunion Island, a French overseas region off the coast of Madagascar.
—Ethan Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
Through speculative fiction, Jackson confronts the racialization and sexualization of Black bodies, honoring the survivors of the transatlantic slave trade while envisioning a world of powerful, resilient women.
—Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Slave trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20trade. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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