No. It was considered legal. So, too, torture- which is even sanctioned in the Bible.
Does that make it any less despicable? And by the way it was not a trade.
It was international human trafficking.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Was "the despicable slave trade" illegal at the time of its practice?
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