✊🏿ap african american studies review

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Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

The process of treating human beings as economic goods or merchandise to be bought, sold, and traded in the slave trade.

AP course connection

Topic 2.4: 2.4 African Resistance on Slave Ships and the Antislavery Movement

Unit 2