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
This, however, Tom resolutely refused; he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not tempt him to turn slave-trader.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe
"In course of time Rhode Island became the greatest slave-trader in the country, becoming a sort of clearing-house for the other colonies."
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Abraham was a slave-holder, a slave-trader, and a slave-breeder.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
