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
• 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
• The city controlled 40 percent of the slave trade in the late 18th century.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There will now be a plaque explaining his role in the slave trade, the museum said.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• 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 Igbo culture of entrepreneurship can be traced back to the slave trade in the 15th century.
  — Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
• We are descended from the Transatlantic African slave trade.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 24 May 2021
• 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
• But even the most creative nostalgists for the Old South struggled to justify the slave trade.
  — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The lucre of cotton prompted plantations in the American South to turn to the African slave trade.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• In fact, there were more slaves than colonists at the Cape during the century preceding the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• Similarly, one-third of the 30 worst-performing countries were involved in the slave trade.
  — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2023
• As a critical entryway for the transatlantic slave trade, the Port of New Orleans was an arrival point for many African people.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024