slave trade
noun
the business or process of capturing, transporting, and selling human beings into chattel slavery, especially Black Africans brought to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
slave-trader
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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
“No, dat am true,” replied Antonio; “de country very good for slave-trader, but no good for man like me what want to trade proper.”
From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson
At one time he was the richest slave-trader in Africa.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson
Mr. Ormond was the son of an opulent slave-trader from Liverpool, and owed his birth to the daughter of a native chief on the Rio Pongo.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
