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

• LiverpoolRelated: Liverpool merchants and ships played a major role in Britain’s slave-trading economy.

• American cuisineRelated: Enslaved Africans and their descendants shaped Southern crops, cooking methods, and food traditions under coercion.

• Indentured servitudeRelated: Its expansion altered colonial labor systems and narrowed reliance on European contract labor.

• MartiniqueRelated: Enslaved Africans were brought to Martinique to work on plantations.

• SanteríaRelated: The trade brought Yoruba people and other Africans to Cuba under colonial rule.

• Afro-Brazilian cultureRelated: Enslaved Africans brought diverse languages, beliefs, skills, and practices that shaped Brazilian life.

• Commercial RevolutionRelated: Colonial commodity production tied commercial wealth to coercive labor and human trafficking.

• Dutch colonization of the AmericasRelated: Dutch colonies and merchants participated in transporting enslaved Africans and supplying plantation labor.

• Early modern periodRelated: It tied European expansion and plantation economies to mass enslavement and enduring racial inequalities.

• Portuguese AngolaRelated: Angola became one of the trade’s largest sources of enslaved people.

• PrivateerRelated: Privateers sometimes targeted slave-trading vessels, while wartime captures also disrupted this commerce.

• SurinameRelated: Enslaved Africans were compelled to work on Suriname’s plantations.

• BarbecueRelated: Enslaved Africans and their descendants shaped Southern foodways, including barbecue labor and cooking.

• CreolizationRelated: It brought African, European, and Indigenous peoples into unequal contact across the Caribbean.

• MadeiraRelated: Madeira’s early plantation economy was connected to slavery and Atlantic colonial commerce.

• PlantationRelated: It supplied enslaved labor to plantations across the Americas.

• Cotton millRelated: British mills processed cotton grown largely through enslaved labor in the Americas.

• New WorldRelated: European expansion into the New World was closely tied to enslavement and plantation economies.

• OrishaRelated: Enslaved Yoruba people carried orisha traditions to the Americas, where they adapted under new conditions.

• Slavery in BrazilRelated: It supplied most enslaved people brought to Brazil and connected Brazilian labor to Atlantic commerce.

• Aedes aegyptiRelated: Historical evidence links the mosquito’s transatlantic spread to shipping routes and this period of forced movement.

• Colony of VirginiaRelated: It supplied enslaved Africans whose labor became central to Virginia’s plantation economy.

• Dutch BrazilRelated: Dutch Brazil’s plantations depended on enslaved African labor, supplied partly through Dutch slave-trading operations.

• Haitian CreoleRelated: It brought speakers of diverse African languages into the colonial society where the language formed.

• SenegambiaRelated: European forts and trading networks along these rivers made the region a major site of enslavement.

• Cape VerdeRelated: Cape Verde became a staging point in the trade and a site of coerced labor.

• Cash cropRelated: Enslaved labor produced major plantation cash crops in the Americas.

• Golden Age of PiracyRelated: Pirates operated amid the same Atlantic shipping networks and colonial violence.

• RumRelated: Enslaved labor underpinned the plantation economies that produced sugar and rum.

• SalvadorRelated: Salvador became a major Brazilian port in a trade that brought many enslaved Africans to Bahia.

• Spanish treasure fleetRelated: Colonial economies linked to fleet commerce also relied on enslaved labor and slave-trading networks.

• White supremacyRelated: Its racialized enslavement made white supremacy a foundation of wealth and law.

• AmericasRelated: Enslaved Africans and their descendants profoundly shaped societies across the Americas.

• BordeauxRelated: Bordeaux merchants and ships participated in this trade, especially in the eighteenth century.

• French West IndiesRelated: It supplied the enslaved labor on which French Caribbean plantation wealth depended.

• MusketRelated: European firearms supported systems of coercion and conquest that expanded the trade.

• Nigerian PidginRelated: Earlier Atlantic contact languages shaped the broader history of English-lexified pidgins, though Nigerian Pidgin's development has its own context.

• Racism in the United StatesRelated: Enslaved labor and racialized status became foundational to colonial economies in what became the United States.

• Slavery in the British CaribbeanRelated: It supplied the people whom British Caribbean colonies enslaved and exploited.

• Yoruba musicRelated: Enslaved Yoruba people carried musical practices that later interacted with American traditions.

• Yoruba mythologyRelated: The diaspora carried Yoruba religious practices and stories to the Americas, where they changed and endured.

• Caribbean diasporaRelated: Enslavement created foundational African-descended communities across the Caribbean and later migration routes beyond it.

• Chartered companyRelated: Several chartered companies received monopolies and organized shipping within this trade.

• ColonizationRelated: Colonial plantation economies drove a vast system of coerced labor and racialized exploitation.

• Plantation agricultureRelated: Enslaved Africans supplied much of the labor on plantations in the Americas.

• Treaty of AlcáçovasRelated: The treaty’s allocation of African trade rights formed part of the setting for Portuguese expansion in this trade.

• Atlantic revolutionsRelated: Its persistence made claims of liberty inseparable from struggles over slavery and abolition.

• History of religionRelated: Enslaved Africans carried and transformed religious practices across the Atlantic world.

• Kongo peopleRelated: The trade forcibly dispersed Kongo people and carried Kongo cultural influences across the Atlantic.

• Le HavreRelated: Le Havre became one of France’s ports involved in this trade.