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The Slave Trade

2021
An account of the involvement of Highland Scots in the trading of Africans into and within the colonies of the Caribbean and the Americas. The chapter describes the slave trade in its full and proper sense – beginning with kidnap, continuing in the conversion of human beings into commodities, and extending to all parts of the plantation economies ...
Manuel Zapata Olivella, Jonathan Tittler
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The Slave Trade

1901
Abstract The recruitment of human beings for coercive use, whether productive or reproductive, has varied over the course of human history. It occurred through violent confrontation, including capture in warfare or the kidnap- ping of outsiders; through a natural process (birth); or through judicial procedures within a community, as a ...
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Borgu in the Atlantic Slave Trade

African Economic History, 1999
slaves for internal West African (and ultimately trans-Saharan) markets. This involvement in the slave trade had diverse aspects, in which Borgu might figure as both a victim and a beneficiary of the trade. First, inhabitants of Borgu were among those enslaved and sold.
R, Law, P E, Lovejoy
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The Arms Trade and the Slave Trade

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1999
We have abandoned the slave trade, and come to abhor it. Could the same happen with the arms trade? Even if we are not pacifists, and allow some use of force in self‐defence, we must have serious ethical questions to ask about the trade in weaponry on which our economies are now so dependent.
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Science's debt to the slave trade

Science, 2019
Historians confront the tainted origins of key plant and animal collections.
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The French Slave Trade: An Overview

The William and Mary Quarterly, 2001
I N comparative studies of race and slavery, France's colonies often appear in an intermediate position between Iberian and Anglo-Saxon extremes. The institutions of the French colonies exhibited in attenuated form the Catholic absolutism of the Iberians, whereas the colonies' social structures closely resembled that of the North European colonies ...
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