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Transatlantic Slave Trade

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  • The historical system of forced transportation and sale of enslaved African people by European traders, primarily from the 16th to the 19th centuries, across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas for brutal, unpaid labor.

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Mr Robinson spoke to the BBC ahead of his keynote speech at an event to mark Unesco's Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at London's City Hall on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023

Some 500 years ago, a city-living, human-biting form of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti began to hitch rides out of West African ports during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2023

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  • The Maafa
  • Forced migration of Africans
  • Middle Passage
  • Triangular Trade
  • Atlantic slave trade

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  • Abolitionist movement

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