The Word to Know: Commerce
The Oxford English Dictionary defines commerce as follows: “Exchange between men of the products of nature or art; buying and selling together; trading; exchange of merchandise, esp. as conducted on a large scale between different countries or districts; including the whole of the transactions, arrangements, etc., therein involved.” One of the most profitable types of commerce in the early modern world was the slave trade, also known as human trafficking. In a paragraph, write a definition of commerce as it pertained to the Atlantic slave trade (see Commerce in People: The Atlantic Slave Trade), taking into account that this was commerce in human beings.