How the three centuries of the transatlantic slave trade became the slave trade
Whenever anybody talks of the slave trade, we know at once that that person is referring to the transportation of black people from Africa to the Americas. Why is that definite article always used now for that particular period in history; why is that the slave trade, when it was only one part of a wider pattern Looking at the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano sheds light on this. Lewis, Jon E. (1998) The Mammoth Book of How it Happened, London: Robinson Publishing
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