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-trading
-
a word derived from
slave trade.
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
At its height, Britain was the world's biggest slave-trading nation.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
The EU said in July 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 ● Sep. 19, 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
Selma, a former slave-trading town and the Dallas County seat, had 15,000 blacks of voting age, but only 335 were registered to vote.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
