How to Use slave trade in a Sentence

slave trade

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  • 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
  • Sometimes, it was even used as currency in the slave trade.
    — Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • Elsewhere, the Netherlands has apologized for its role in the slave trade.
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • So, when the Atlantic slave trade happened, we were not allowed to practice any of the African Gods.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Because of the transatlantic slave trade, we’ve been stripped of our identity in so many ways.
    — Anna Katherine Clemmons, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Great inhumanities that were done to us by the British during the slave trade.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • His subjects, from the slave trade to the war of Greek independence, suggest a man on the side of reform.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The part of the trip that stood out the most was a visit to Gorée Island — a tiny island off the coast of Senegal known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
    — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • In July, King Willem-Alexander apologized for the country’s role in the slave trade.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The city had played a key role in financing the slave trade and was the site of fierce resistance to integration.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • The Atlantic slave trade is hardly overlooked in the movie, however.
    — Nsenga K. Burton, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Gatling's recovered his wealth by investing in the slave trade.
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Most early bishops, and many priests and parishioners, enslaved people or took part in the slave trade.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022
  • Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologized this year for the role of his country and his family in the slave trade.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • What stuck out to me was the focus on what is visible and invisible in the narrative of the slave trade.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And Sherbro Island used to historically be the point of no return in the slave trade.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Among the artifacts found in the wreck are eight copper manilla bracelets—precious fragments of the currency of the slave trade.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
  • In Sevilla, Spain, a host told me not to speak about Christopher Columbus’ contribution to the slave trade.
    — Ronny Maye, Essence, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But the slave trade is a central component to its narrative.
    — Jake Coyle, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Roberts’s work traces the long history of racial injustice in health care, beginning with the British slave trade.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
  • But the kingdom’s involvement in the slave trade doesn’t align as neatly with the historical record.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The Town of Jamestown has created a scholarship fund and will fly the Juneteenth flag, to recognize and begin to atone for its role in the slave trade.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
  • The professor acknowledges that the involvement of the Dahomey Kingdom in the slave trade—and the existence of the trade itself—was a tragedy.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The Woman King flits between the war with the Oyo, the broader battle against the encroaching slave trade and the internal drama of the Agojie.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The incredible true story of one man's survival, as a free Black man from upstate New York is kidnapped and sold to the slave trade in the South.
    — Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2022
  • This thread of the story offers a peek into the transatlantic slave trade — and our world’s ugly history.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 24 May 2023
  • This is a drink derived from the hibiscus plant that’s indigenous to Africa and was brought to the Americas during the slave trade.
    — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But Virginia was ground zero in the domestic slave trade, the heart of the Confederacy.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The horrors of the transatlantic slave trade conveniently passed into the fog of history.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022

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