How to Use slave trade in a Sentence

slave trade

noun
  • The peak year for the transatlantic slave trade was 1829.
    — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2022
  • One play was about the evils of slavery and the slave trade.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • African states no doubt played their own role in the slave trade.
    — Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The same is true to learning about the slave trade, about Jim Crow laws.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The slave trade shifted westward along the African coast.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The big fight with the Oyo that Dahomey goes through, and the slave trade—that was all based on fact.
    — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The series starts in the country of Benin in West Africa, a hub of the Transatlantic slave trade.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Ghana holds a special place in the dark history of the slave trade.
    — Albert N. Kimbu, Quartz Africa, 8 Aug. 2019
  • It was involved in the slave trade for over two centuries.
    — Howard Schneider, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The scope of the transatlantic slave trade was staggering.
    — Chris Searles, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The city controlled 40 percent of the slave trade in the late 18th century.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
  • The region played a central role in the trans-Aatlantic slave trade.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2020
  • The American slave trade began on the East Coast in 1619.
    — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 22 Aug. 2019
  • McCrear may well have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Still, the screws on the slave trade were steadily tightening.
    — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The rest of the museum talks about the slave trade, slavery & Civil Rights.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In the slave trade, there was a crueler reason for the use of a paddle or strap.
    — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 18 May 2018
  • Sometimes, it was even used as currency in the slave trade.
    — Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • Pepper corns, cowry shells used in the slave trade and bronze artillery pieces litter the wreck site.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Elsewhere, the Netherlands has apologized for its role in the slave trade.
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • The British were looking for a cheap food to support their growing slave trade.
    — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The recent furor over the slave trade in Libya kicked off a new round of finger-pointing late last year.
    — Molly O'Toole, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
  • That includes Cape Coast Castle, which was a hub of the transatlantic slave trade.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • African people were displaced throughout the world as a result of the slave trade.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
  • Families had settled there in the 1700s to escape the slave trade.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • So, when the Atlantic slave trade happened, we were not allowed to practice any of the African Gods.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
  • And the Texas killing fields and Juneteenth and the slave trade, that whole area has, in my eyes, sort of a dark cloud of history on top of it.
    — ELLE, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The descendants of Haitians were deported during the slave trade from the gulf of Benin.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The painting refers to the European migrants who moved to Brazil en masse to work its plantations following the abolition of the slave trade in 1888.
    — Emi Eleode, ARTnews.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • During the slave trade, brandy was replaced with rum which was readily available in the Caribbean.
    — Essence, 25 Nov. 2024

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