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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

I was then asked what was the name of the slave-trader.

From The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington by Pennington, James W. C.

The people cannot esteem the slave-trader, who is used as a means of punishing those who have family differences, as those of a wife with her husband, or a servant with his master.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

He was, we are told, a fanatic, a visionary, a tyrant, a buccaneer, a liar, and a slave-trader.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)