slave trade
奴隶贸易,奴隶制贸易,奴隶制,奴隶交易
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- : the business or process of capturing, transporting, and selling human beings into chattel slavery, especially Black Africans brought to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
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After Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, traders sought out legal products.
It entered the global economy in the 1500s aboard ships engaged in the transatlantic slave trade.
The slave trade expanded to include intra-American trade, with a woman named Maria coming from Mexico City in 1609, and the Pacific slave trade with a person coming as far away as Japan.
Some years ago, I was researching the transatlantic slave trade and abolitionist movement and was looking at the attitudes that were prevalent amongst many abolitionists.
It turns, out, however, that Gorée’s prominence in the slave trade may be overstated.
Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
There was really only one good reason to maintain the embargo: Trade with Cuba strengthens the Castros.
The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.
But they have tied their credit system in the bonds of narrow banking laws and their trade in those of a cramping tariff.
So far we have not made great progress in securing Europe's Latin-American trade.
Soon after its cultivation began in France, Spain, and Portugal, the tobacco trade was farmed out.