slave market
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Velekete Slave Market: The Marketplace Where African Chiefs Sold Enslaved People to European Slave Traders
The Velekete Slave Market served as a business point between African middlemen and European slave merchants and facilitated the forced migration of thousands of Africans to the Americas, where they were subjected to generations of enslavement and exploitation.
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How Formerly Enslaved African-Americans Placed Ads on Newspapers to Find Lost Family After Slavery
During slavery, it was common for families to be torn apart, with husbands, wives, children, and siblings sold to...
