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Mr. Pires became Cape Verde's first prime minister after the rocky archipelago off West Africa, a colonial slave-trading outpost, won independence from Portugal in 1975.
Cape Verde's Former President Wins Leadership Prize for a Graceful Exit
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Hell, Harvard was built using slave-trading money.
Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
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Apostle Adam Afzelius, who set up his specimen-collecting operations in the slave-trading port of Freetown, Sierra Leone, writes a damning, hypnotic account of a sociopathic young English trader who profits from the caprice of local chiefs.
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Lexington was an important slave-trading market because of the nearby horse farms and plantations.
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He eventually jumped ship, was punished, and then found work on a slave-trading vessel.
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Calling a group of students “brutal, slave-trading Moslems” is horrible, and I am guessing, entirely undeserved.
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They originated a special branch of slave-trading for this trade and the white aristocrats of Virginia and the Carolinas made more money by this business during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than in any other way.
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And that role, it turns out, was a considerable one, especially for the slave-trading kingdoms of western and central Africa.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Black Like Thee With Spike, Skip, and Barack
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Once a bastion for pirates like Blackbeard, and then a West Indies slave-trading center, it became a haven for free blacks who found jobs as clerks, shopkeepers and artisans.
Dwight Brown: The U.S. Virgin Islands -- 3 Unique Isles, 3 Unique Experiences.
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I seem to recall mention of other slave-trading centres along the coast, which wouldn't exclude other European powers.
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