The South African document singles out the trans-Atlantic slave trade for censure. |
Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1808, and her colonies were not allowed to render assistance to slavers. |
This put the wind back in the sails of Wilberforce who succeeded in pushing through a bill abolishing the slave trade. |
The slave trade was a horrible stain on our country's history, but we need to move on in order for us to achieve. |
An Afrofuturist reading of the transatlantic slave trade becomes an epic tragedy about alien abductees. |
The prize these early imperialists craved was control of the West African slave trade. |