slave-trader
- a word derived from slave trade.
Example Sentences
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In 1862, Nathaniel Gordon became the first and only American slave-trader to be executed under the U.S.
From Washington Times • Feb. 21, 2021
Mr Johnson also condemned the tearing down of a statue of slave-trader Edward Colston on June 7 by anti-racist demonstrators.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2020
He chose five Englishmen, an American, an old Crimean Italian interpreter called Romulus Gessi, and a slave-trader named Abou Saoud, whom Gordon had found a prisoner in Cairo.
From The Red Book of Heroes by Mills, Arthur Wallis
Among the titles of the god is that of “the lord of workmen;” and it is therefore possible that he was regarded as in a special way the patron of the slave-trader.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
I find, also, that the two headmen selected by the notorious, but covert slave-trader, Ludha Damji, have been plundering my stores from the 20th October, 1870, to 18th February, 1872, or nearly sixteen months.
