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ˈslave-trade, n.
[slave n.1 7.]
Traffic in slaves; spec. the former transportation of African Negroes to America. Also attrib.
1734W. Snelgrave (title), A New Account of some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave Trade. 1772Wesley Jrnl. 12 Feb., A very different book..on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. 1834De Quincey in Tait's Mag. I. 18/2 Of the kidnapping, murdering slave-trade, there cannot be two opinions. 1849Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 322 The efforts made by the English and United States' fleets to put down the slave-trade. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxvii. 186 That America should benefit the African, was always the excuse for the slave-trade.
Hence ˈslave-trade v. intr., to traffic in slaves.
1818R. Thorpe View Slave Trade 68 By enabling the great body of factors to discover, that..they might slave-trade with impunity. |