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Freetown
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Esclavage
vignette|redresse=0.7|L'Esclave rebelle, Michel-Ange, . vignette|redresse=0.7|Jeune esclave noir, bronze trouvé à Fayum (près de Memphis), Égypte, - s. av. J.-C. vignette|Fers d'esclave. vignette|Esclaves sur le pont d'un navire, vers 1900. L'esclavage est un système juridique et social qui applique le droit de propriété aux individus, dits esclaves. Par opposition un individu ne faisant pas l'objet d'un tel droit de propriété est dit libre. Le propriétaire d'un esclave est quant à lui appelé maître.
Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those who were transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa who had been sold by West African slave traders to mainly Portuguese, British, Spanish, Dutch, and French slave traders.