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The rise of race-based slavery (15th–19th centuries)
A major turning point came in the mid‑1400s, when Portuguese ships began capturing and trading Africans, eventually creating the transatlantic slave trade. Europeans sought labor for plantations in the Americas after Indigenous populations were devastated by disease and violence.





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