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

• Portuguese discoveriesRelated: Portuguese expansion helped establish early Atlantic slave-trading routes and systems.

• British West IndiesRelated: Enslaved Africans formed the labor force of many British Caribbean colonies.

• Chattel slaveryBroader topic: It supplied enslavers with people treated as transferable property across an ocean-spanning market.

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

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

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

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

• West AfricaRelated: West African ports and hinterlands were deeply affected by this coerced trade.

• British colonization of the AmericasRelated: Enslaved African labor sustained plantation economies, especially in the Caribbean and southern mainland colonies.

• ColorismRelated: Enslavement produced hierarchies in which complexion could affect labor, treatment, and social position.

• Great DivergenceRelated: Plantation commodities and coerced labor connected European growth to resources beyond Europe.

• JamestownRelated: The arrival of captive Africans at Point Comfort in 1619 connected Virginia to this system.

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

• SyncretismRelated: African diasporic religions took shape amid displacement, enslavement, and contact with Christianity.

• BarbadosRelated: Enslaved Africans were brought to Barbados to work on plantations and transformed its population and culture.

• CaravelRelated: Caravels took part in early Portuguese Atlantic expansion that preceded the trade's large-scale development.

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

• Maritime tradeBroader topic: Atlantic commerce tied shipping, plantation commodities, and mass enslavement together.

• SlaveryBroader topic: It expanded hereditary racial slavery across the Americas.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• DehumanizationBroader topic: Racialized portrayals helped rationalize treating enslaved people as property.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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