Recalling that the transatlantic slave trade, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, involved the forced transportation of millions of Africans as slaves, mostly from West Africa to the Americas, thereby enriching the imperial powers of the time,
回顾15世纪至19世纪末经营的跨大西洋贩卖奴隶，强制运送数以百万计的非洲人为奴隶，大都从西部非洲运往美洲，给当时各帝国带来大量财富，