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单词 slave-trade
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slave-traden.

Etymology: < slave n.1 + trade n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈslave-trade.
Traffic in slaves; spec. the former transportation of black Africans to America. Also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in slaves
slave-trade1734
man-trade1760
man-merchandise1788
slave-dealing1835
slave-dealing1835
slaving1862
1734 W. Snelgrave (title) A New Account of some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave Trade.
1772 J. Wesley Jrnl. 12 Feb. A very different book..on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.
1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 18/2 Of the kidnapping, murdering slave-trade, there cannot be two opinions.
1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 322 The efforts made by the English and United States' fleets to put down the slave-trade.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxvii. 186 That America should benefit the African, was always the excuse for the slave-trade.

Derivatives

ˈslave-trade v. (intransitive) to traffic in slaves.
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1818 R. Thorpe View Slave Trade 68 By enabling the great body of factors to discover, that..they might slave-trade with impunity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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