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The 266 pages that link to Atlantic slave trade, each with the reason it gives.

• Trans-Saharan tradeCompared with: Its maritime routes and historical scale differed from the older, overland slave trade across the Sahara.

• Spice tradeCompared with: It became a distinct, violently coercive system of Atlantic commerce alongside European overseas expansion.

• Fur tradeCompared with: It shows how colonial commodity systems could depend on coerced labor, unlike the varied arrangements of fur exchange.

• Manila galleonCompared with: It was a major Atlantic system of coerced movement, unlike the galleons’ principal focus on bullion and merchandise.

• Roman slaveryCompared with: Its racialized, hereditary plantation system differed from Rome’s varied routes into slavery.

• Barbary corsairsCompared with: Comparing the systems clarifies differences in scale, routes, and political economies of enslavement.

• The AtlanticCompared with: Its legacy is a subject of historical debate and reporting in the magazine.

• Indian Ocean slave tradeCompared with: Its concentrated plantation destinations and transatlantic shipping differed from Indian Ocean networks' varied routes and societies.

• East African slave tradeCompared with: It differed in destination, maritime routes, and scale from East African and Indian Ocean networks.

• Global silver tradeCompared with: It linked the same empires and oceans, but moved enslaved people rather than bullion.

• Turkish AbductionsCompared with: The Icelandic captives were enslaved in North Africa, not transported through this trade.