Sentences with 'transatlantic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word transatlantic and other words derived from it.
• « Now, transatlantic communications are instantaneous and people travel in a matter of hours. Distinctions between the old and new worlds are obsolete. »
• « The use of slave labour only grew over time, although by the mid-16th century Europeans were increasingly turning to African slaves, resulting in one of the most horrendous injustices in history: the transatlantic slave trade. »
• « The first transatlantic crossing was a race between two steamships from England to New York in 1838; soon, sailing ships became what they are today: archaic novelties. »
• « Despite the British ban on the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, the existing African-American slave population was maintained through natural reproduction and remained locked in a position of total legal servitude, enforced with brutal violence. »