单词 | slave-trade |
释义 | slave-traden. Traffic in slaves; spec. the former transportation of black Africans to America. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1734 |
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