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Wikipedia: The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the trading, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Most enslaved people were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa and taken to North and South America to labor on sugar, coffee, cocoa and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines, in rice fields, or in houses to work as servants.
![[Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1769]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Slave_Auction_Ad_s.jpg "Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1769")
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![[An antislavery medallion of the early 19th century.]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/BrotherSlave.jpg "An antislavery medallion of the early 19th century.")
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