slave trade

How To Use slave trade In A Sentence

• It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [ The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• The development of the sugar industry was directly linked with the African slave trade, due to the harsh physical demands and labour intensiveness of farming sugar.
• What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led.
• From the late 1780s onwards evangelicals contributed substantially to the pamphlet literature against the slave trade.
• It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
• It became a centre of the slave trade from the 16th century onwards.
• Because their wares were sold to ship captains for use as currency to buy slaves, the Sheffield cutlers wrote, they might be expected to favor the slave trade.
• Analogies with the slave trade and slavery and the movement against them were apparent to such reformers.
• The movement for reparations from countries engaged in the African slave trade is building up a head of steam.
• This is the modern face of racism and, as with racism's most iconic expression, the black slave trade, the world needs to make a moral decision.