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noun

  • 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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Ecologists believe the transatlantic migration of mosquitoes may have peaked around the year 1800, during the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2023

She is quoting records from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database hosted by Rice University in Texas - and recent testing showed that 23% of her DNA is linked to these people.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2022

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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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