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

• The GambiaRelated: The Gambia River served as a route for trade and capture within this history.

• Asante EmpireRelated: Asante participated in regional trade networks connected to Atlantic markets, including the trade in enslaved people.

• AṣẹRelated: The trade dispersed Yoruba-descended communities and carried religious ideas into the Americas.

• Gambia RiverRelated: The Gambia River served as an inland route for slave-trading forts and commerce.

• Kunta KinteRelated: Kunta’s capture and transportation are framed within this historical system.

• West African cuisineRelated: Forced migration carried West African crops and cooking traditions into the Americas.

• African danceRelated: This history carried African movement and musical influences into diasporic dance traditions.

• Aro ConfederacyRelated: Aro commerce intersected with slave trading, which connected inland markets to Atlantic demand.

• Bartholomew RobertsRelated: Roberts entered piracy after serving on a slave-trading ship.

• CocoaRelated: Enslaved labor helped build colonial plantation economies that produced cacao and other commodities.

• Creole peoplesRelated: Enslaved Africans and their descendants shaped many Creole populations and traditions across the Americas.

• Diogo CãoRelated: Portuguese coastal contact preceded later trade networks that profoundly affected Kongo and the wider region.

• Early modern warfareRelated: Imperial wars and maritime competition were entangled with the expansion of slave-trading empires.

• English colonization of North AmericaRelated: It supplied coerced labor that became central to plantation economies.

• European exploration of AfricaRelated: European coastal exploration and commerce became entangled with the trade in enslaved Africans.

• Jolof EmpireRelated: Coastal trade and European expansion altered the political pressures facing post-imperial states.

• LuandaRelated: Luanda became one of the trade’s largest African ports and departure points.

• Matthew Fontaine MauryRelated: Maury’s prewar advocacy of colonization was tied to the era’s conflicts over slavery.

• African American cuisineRelated: It displaced people and food knowledge while creating the conditions in which African American cuisine emerged.

• African-American danceRelated: Enslavement displaced African peoples while creating the conditions in which diasporic traditions formed.

• African-American Vernacular EnglishRelated: Enslavement and migration created the conditions in which African American speech communities formed.

• Afro-Cuban cultureRelated: It brought African peoples and cultural traditions to Cuba under conditions of enslavement.

• Caribbean cuisineRelated: Enslaved Africans brought crops, culinary knowledge, and techniques that transformed regional cooking.

• Gossypium hirsutumRelated: The expansion of cotton cultivation in the Americas was entangled with enslaved labor and this trade.

• Maryse CondéRelated: Its violence and aftermath shape the historical memory explored in her fiction.

• OkraRelated: The crop’s presence in the Americas is tied in part to African food traditions carried under enslavement.

• Sea shantyRelated: Sailors' musical practices developed within Atlantic maritime worlds shaped by coercion and cultural exchange.

• Afonso I of KongoRelated: The growth of slave exports intensified disputes over Portuguese traders’ conduct in Kongo.

• AlagoasRelated: Enslaved Africans supplied plantation labor and helped form Alagoas’s population and cultural traditions.

• Colonial BrazilRelated: It supplied the enslaved labor on which much of colonial Brazil’s export economy depended.

• Deep SouthRelated: It supplied enslaved people whose labor built the region’s plantation system.

• History of coffeeRelated: Enslaved labor was used on coffee plantations in parts of the Caribbean and the Americas.

• History of foodRelated: Enslaved labor underpinned plantation systems that supplied sugar and other foods.

• History of the Democratic Republic of the CongoRelated: Slave trading reshaped populations and political relations in western Central Africa.

• Jamaican cuisineRelated: Enslaved Africans brought food knowledge and crops that profoundly shaped Jamaican cooking.

• Kingdom of LoangoRelated: European demand for enslaved people reshaped Loango’s coastal commerce and political relations.

• Lunda EmpireRelated: External demand for captives affected Lunda diplomacy, warfare, and commercial relations.

• NevisRelated: Enslaved Africans were brought to Nevis to labor on plantations.

• ShangoRelated: Enslaved Yoruba people carried Shango’s worship into the Americas.

• SugarRelated: Sugar plantations were a major driver of enslaved labor and the Atlantic trade.

• 18th centuryRelated: The century saw both the trade’s continued expansion and growing organized opposition to it.

• CalabarRelated: Calabar’s port became a major embarkation point in the trade during the eighteenth century.

• Colonia del SacramentoRelated: Colonia served as a port within regional networks carrying enslaved people and goods.

• English overseas possessionsRelated: English possessions became participants in a trade that sustained plantation economies and inflicted immense human loss.

• Gran CanariaRelated: The islands’ Atlantic position connected Gran Canaria to colonial trade and enslaved labor.

• History of São Tomé and PríncipeRelated: Enslaved Africans were transported to the islands to work on early sugar plantations.

• History of the CaribbeanRelated: It supplied the coerced labor that sustained Caribbean plantation societies.

• Saint KittsRelated: Enslaved Africans were brought to Saint Kitts to work on sugar plantations.

• Slavery in AfricaRelated: Its demand reshaped political economies and patterns of enslavement in many African regions.

• Virgin IslandsRelated: Enslaved Africans and their descendants shaped the islands’ population, labor, and culture.