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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Maritime historyBroader topic: Ocean shipping made the mass coercion and circulation of enslaved people possible.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 16th centuryRelated: Colonial economies increasingly relied on the trafficking and forced labor of Africans.

• 17th centuryRelated: Its scale and plantation demand grew during the century, with lasting human costs.

• African AmericansRelated: It brought the ancestors of many African Americans to North America under coercion.