... labor across the Atlantic is perhaps the result of the differential pace in the evolution of a cultural pan-European's on the one hand, and a pan-Africanism on the other. An interlude of two or three centuries between the former and the latter provided a window of opportunity in which the slave trade rose and fell dramatically. For four centuries from the mid ... result was first the rise, and then, as perceptions of the insider-outsider divide slowly changed, the fall, of the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans. During the long coercive interlude of forced trans-Atlantic migratio...

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