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Title
Slave Trade
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Author
Daniel C. Littlefield
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Keywords
extended across four centuries and fostered the involuntary migration of millions of African peoples from their homelands to forced labor in the Americas and elsewhere around the globe, left an unfortunate legacy of racism by establishing a connection between servility, barbarity, and peoples of African descent, major stream of African labor went to sugar-producing regions in the West Indies or Latin America, Eighteenth-century South Carolina was the continent’s leading importer of slaves, importing approximately 100,000 Africans, Crowded and unsanitary conditions, poor food and inadequate supplies, insufficient drinking water, epidemic diseases, and long voyages conspired to make slave ships legendary for their foul smell and high death rates, slave trade was largely a seasonal affair,
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Website Name
South Carolina Encyclopedia
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Publisher
University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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URL
https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/slave-trade/view/documents
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Access Date
April 24, 2024
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Original Published Date
August 1, 2016
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Date of Last Update
August 23, 2022
