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
For example, Conservative MP Richard Drax has previously said his family's slave-trading past was "deeply, deeply regrettable", but "no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago".
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2023
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
The DeWolf family made a fortune as one of the nation’s leading slave-trading families; Gibbs married a sea captain who worked for the DeWolfs.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2023
Crusoe had, after all, been on a slave-trading voyage when he was shipwrecked.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
