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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The slaves were one element of a three-part economic cycle—the Triangular Trade and its infamous Middle Passage—which ultimately involved four continents, four centuries and the lives and fortunes of millions of people. |
 | | African slaves taken from the West African regions known as the Slave Coast, Gold Coast, and Ivory Coast were sold into slavery as a result of a defeat in warfare. |
 | | Slaves were an expensive commodity, and the traders and rulers of the African states received a great deal in exchange for condemning some of their population into slavery. |
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