Editing The Atlantic Slave Trade (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''The Atlantic Slave Trade''' — The transportation of enslaved African people by slave traders, mainly to the Americas.
* '''The Middle Passage''' — The horrific second leg of the "Triangular Trade" where enslaved people were packed into the bottom of ships for 1-3 months.
* '''Triangular Trade''':
# '''Stage 1''': European goods (Guns, Cloth) were taken to Africa and traded for people.
# '''Stage 2''': Enslaved Africans were taken to the Americas (The Middle Passage).
# '''Stage 3''': Raw materials (Sugar, Cotton, Silver) were taken from the Americas back to Europe.
* '''Chattel Slavery''' — A specific type of slavery where the enslaved person is "Property" (like a cow or a chair) and their children are born into slavery.
* '''Abolitionism''' — The movement to end the slave trade and slavery (led by both formerly enslaved people and religious groups).
* '''Manumission''' — The legal "Freeing" of an enslaved person by their owner.
* '''The Zong Massacre (1781)''' — A horrific event where 133 enslaved people were thrown overboard to collect "Insurance money," which shocked the world and helped the abolitionist movement.
* '''Olaudah Equiano''' — A formerly enslaved man whose "Autobiography" became a bestseller and exposed the horrors of the Middle Passage to the British public.
* '''Toussaint L'Ouverture''' — The leader of the "Haitian Revolution," the only successful slave revolt in history that led to the creation of a free nation.
* '''The 13th Amendment (1865)''' — The US law that finally abolished slavery (except as punishment for a crime).
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