The Atlantic Slave Trade
the largest forced migration in history — and the people who outlived it
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Origins: The Portuguese and the Sugar Model
1444–1580
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The System Scales: Brazil and the Caribbean
1550–1700
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The African Coast and the Kingdoms
1500–1800
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The Middle Passage as a World of Its Own
1600–1800
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The Plantation Complex and the Economics
1600–1860
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Resistance, Revolt, and Marronage
1500–1831
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The Abolition Movement
1750–1807
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Haiti: The Revolution That Couldn't Happen
1791–1804
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The Slow Legal End
1807–1888
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The Surviving Cultures
1650–present
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The Afterlife and the Reckoning
1888–present