slave trade

slave trade
noun
traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑slave traffic
• Hypernyms: ↑traffic

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noun
: traffic in slaves; especially : the buying and selling of Negroes for profit prior to the American Civil War

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the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, esp. black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
[1725-35]

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slave trade or slave traffic noun
The buying and selling of slaves
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Main Entry: ↑slave

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slave trade UK US noun [uncountable]
the business of buying and selling people as slaves , especially the trade in people from Africa who in the past were taken to North and South America to be sold
Thesaurus: slaves and slaverysynonym

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slave trade,
the business of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially Negro slaves: »

For 250 years, Bristol and Liverpool merchants grew fat on the profits of the Nigerian slave trade, shipping tens of thousands of blacks yearly to the U.S. (Newsweek).

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n. chiefly historical the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in African blacks as slaves by European countries and North America
Derivatives:
slave trader n.

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noun [noncount]
: the activity or business of buying and selling slaves — used especially to refer to the business of buying and selling people as slaves before the American Civil War

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ˈslave trade [slave trade] noun singular
the buying and selling of people as ↑slaves, especially in the 17th–19th centuries

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