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The transatlantic slave trade forced mass migration

1501-1867 CE for voyages documented in the SlaveVoyages database · Atlantic Africa, ocean crossings and American destinations

European and American slaving systems forcibly transported millions of African people, building plantation and mining economies through racialized violence.

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How the setting appeared

Forts, coastal roads, holding places, ships, auction sites and plantations formed coercive routes across regions.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGESCIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADECIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES Setting and material context · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Captive people endured family separation and deadly passages while creating communities, preserving knowledge and resisting enslavement.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGESCIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADECIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES Lifeways and community · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Forced labor produced sugar, tobacco, cotton, rice, metals and domestic services; sailors, brokers and states profited from the trade.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGESCIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADECIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES Work, tools and exchange · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

African religious traditions traveled and changed in diaspora alongside Christianity and Islam; distinct diasporic traditions formed through continuity, adaptation and exchange.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGESCIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADECIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

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Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGESCIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADECIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGES

SlaveVoyages research databases

https://www.slavevoyages.org/

Rice University, Emory University and contributing academic institutions

CIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADE

British transatlantic slave trade records

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/

The National Archives, United Kingdom

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES

Routes of Enslaved Peoples

https://www.unesco.org/en/routes-enslaved-peoples

UNESCO

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