slave-merchantn.
One who traffics or deals in slaves; a slave-dealer.
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knave-seller1552
mango1602
Guinea merchant1719
slave-merchant1746
Guinea-man1756
Guinea trader1756
soul driver1774
Negro-dealer1799
slave-trader1813
nigger jockey1838
Negro-hunter1839
slaver1842
fleshmonger1845
man-dealer1860
blackbirder1876
1746 P. Francis in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles 217 (note) This was probably the usual Language of Slave-Merchants.
1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 2 The slave-merchants..brought forward several persons as witnesses.
1808 T. Clarkson Afr. Slave-trade I. 385 Slave-merchants..came in.
1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. I. vi. 149 The slave-merchant..supplied labourers on credit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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