Example Sentences

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Several years later, a new law punished slave-trading with death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

The EU said earlier this month that Europe's slave-trading past inflicted "untold suffering" on millions of people and hinted at the need for reparations for what it described as a "crime against humanity".

From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2023

Today, modest remembrances to the neighborhood’s slave-trading past are tucked away in a hard-to-find area adjacent to I-95, a parking lot and rumbling train tracks.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

While the Gloucester was not a slave-trading ship, many people from diverse cultural backgrounds lost their lives and historians will make sure their stories are told, the UEA said.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2022

Crusoe had, after all, been on a slave-trading voyage when he was shipwrecked.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler