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

• Haitian RevolutionNarrower topic: It supplied Saint-Domingue’s plantation economy with a large, violently exploited enslaved population.

• Slavery in the United StatesNarrower topic: It forcibly brought many of the people enslaved in British North America and the United States.

• Toussaint LouvertureNarrower topic: It supplied the enslaved population whose revolt transformed Saint-Domingue.

• William WilberforceNarrower topic: The British trade was one part of this broader system, which the 1807 act did not end.

• African-American historyNarrower topic: Its expansion brought the ancestors of many African Americans to the colonies and United States.

• Jean-Baptiste ColbertNarrower topic: Colbert’s colonial administration operated within and helped regulate France’s participation in this system.

• Oyo EmpireNarrower topic: Oyo’s wars and commerce became entangled with the expanding demand for enslaved people.

• Olaudah EquianoNarrower topic: Equiano’s account describes capture, the Middle Passage, and sale within this system.

• Abolition of slavery in BrazilNarrower topic: It supplied the enslaved population whose bondage Brazilian abolition ended.

• Kingdom of KongoNarrower topic: Kongo’s rulers sought to control a trade that increasingly destabilized the kingdom.

• Middle PassageNarrower topic: The Middle Passage was its central ocean-crossing stage.

• Sugar plantations in the CaribbeanNarrower topic: Caribbean plantation labor was one major destination and economic driver of this wider trade.

• Virginia CompanyNarrower topic: The colony the company founded became a site where racialized African slavery took root.

• Jean-Jacques DessalinesNarrower topic: It supplied the enslaved population whose revolt transformed Saint-Domingue.

• Sierra LeoneNarrower topic: Freetown’s founding and Bunce Island’s history are tied to this trade.

• Afro-Cuban musicNarrower topic: Enslaved Africans brought musical practices that became central to Cuban culture.

• Brazilian abolitionismNarrower topic: Its suppression and eventual end changed the supply of enslaved people in Brazil and sharpened disputes over slavery.

• MaroonsNarrower topic: Its expansion created the conditions from which many maroon communities arose.

• Royal African CompanyNarrower topic: The company organized English participation in this wider system of forced migration.

• BahiaNarrower topic: The trade brought enslaved Africans to Bahia and shaped its population and cultural traditions.

• British abolitionismNarrower topic: British abolitionism targeted British participation in this larger international system, not the trade everywhere.

• African diaspora cinemaNarrower topic: Its aftermath shaped the communities and historical memories represented in many diasporic films.

• Granville SharpNarrower topic: The system Sharp opposed included the trade that brought enslaved people into British legal reach.

• Phillis WheatleyNarrower topic: Wheatley was captured in West Africa and transported to Boston through this system.

• Elmina CastleNarrower topic: Elmina Castle supplied captives to this wider system of forced migration and commerce.

• GoréeNarrower topic: Gorée’s public significance is inseparable from its place in the wider slave-trading system.

• Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyNarrower topic: The family’s origins in the novel are severed and reshaped by this historical system.

• History of CubaNarrower topic: It supplied enslaved labor that sustained Cuba’s expanding sugar plantations.

• House of SlavesNarrower topic: The museum commemorates this system, though the building’s precise role in it is contested.

• Nzinga of Ndongo and MatambaNarrower topic: Portuguese efforts to capture people for export intensified the conflict Nzinga resisted.

• Swedish overseas coloniesNarrower topic: Swedish colonial commerce intersected with this system, especially on Saint Barthélemy.

• Danish overseas coloniesNarrower topic: Danish participation formed one national strand of this larger system.

• Esteban de DorantesNarrower topic: Esteban's enslavement belongs to the early Spanish Atlantic world, though his route differed from later plantation traffic.

• History of SurinameNarrower topic: It supplied the enslaved labor that sustained Suriname’s plantations.

• History of VirginiaNarrower topic: It supplied the enslaved labor on which Virginia’s plantation wealth increasingly depended.