How to Use slave trade in a Sentence

slave trade

noun
  • African states no doubt played their own role in the slave trade.
    — Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Not dabblers in the slave trade, tycoons of the slave trade.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Ghana holds a special place in the dark history of the slave trade.
    — Albert N. Kimbu, Quartz Africa, 8 Aug. 2019
  • With this growing demand came a resurgence of the slave trade.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The same is true to learning about the slave trade, about Jim Crow laws.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Still, the screws on the slave trade were steadily tightening.
    — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Pepper corns, cowry shells used in the slave trade and bronze artillery pieces litter the wreck site.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • In the slave trade, there was a crueler reason for the use of a paddle or strap.
    — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 18 May 2018
  • There will now be a plaque explaining his role in the slave trade, the museum said.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • African people were displaced throughout the world as a result of the slave trade.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
  • The region played a central role in the trans-Aatlantic slave trade.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2020
  • The British were looking for a cheap food to support their growing slave trade.
    — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • McCrear may well have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 14 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 man who claimed that NFL Combine is like the slave trade.
    — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • 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
  • This movie imagines an African nation not damaged by the ravages of the slave trade.
    — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Elsewhere, the Netherlands has apologized for its role in the slave trade.
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • But Randy Sparks is a very good historian of slavery and the slave trade.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
  • On the Senate side, reaction to the Libyan slave trade has been more piecemeal.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The rest of the museum talks about the slave trade, slavery & Civil Rights.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That includes Cape Coast Castle, which was a hub of the transatlantic slave trade.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The city controlled 40 percent of the slave trade in the late 18th century.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
  • Families had settled there in the 1700s to escape the slave trade.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The descendants of Haitians were deported during the slave trade from the gulf of Benin.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • African leaders agreed on a framework to demand reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, as well as debt relief.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 June 2026
  • With the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, color comes to be very, very important in the Western world.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • So, when the Atlantic slave trade happened, we were not allowed to practice any of the African Gods.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The series starts in the country of Benin in West Africa, a hub of the Transatlantic slave trade.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021

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