slave trade

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noun

the business or process of capturing, transporting, and selling human beings into chattel slavery, especially Black Africans brought to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.

Origin of slave trade

First recorded in 1725–35

Words nearby slave trade

slaver, Slave River, slavery, slave ship, slave state, slave trade, slavey, Slavic, Slavicism, Slavicist, slavish

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Example sentences from the Web for slave trade

The statesman felt it; it put new vigor into the despatches he wrote and the measures he devised with regard to the slave-trade.
The Personal Life Of David Livingstone|William Garden Blaikie
Our fathers abolished the slave-trade, but permitted the continuation of domestic slavery.
Aunt Phillis's Cabin|Mary H. Eastman
It was "twenty years before Wilberforce took the first step in England against the slave-trade."
Quaker Hill|Warren H. Wilson
This being found an inadequate check, in 1824 the slave-trade was declared to be piracy and the punishment death.
With Axe and Rifle|W.H.G. Kingston

The slave-trade rose to a great height in 1836, owing principally to the high price of colonial produce.
Journal of an African Cruiser|Horatio Bridge

British Dictionary definitions for slave trade

slave trade

noun

the business of trading in slaves, esp the transportation of Black Africans to America from the 16th to 19th centuries

Derived forms of slave trade

slave-trader, nounslave-trading, noun

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for slave trade

slave trade

The transportation of slaves from Africa to North and South America between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Congress banned the importing of slaves into the United States in 1808.

单词	slave trade
释义	slave trade SEE SYNONYMS FOR slave trade ON THESAURUS.COM noun the business or process of capturing, transporting, and selling human beings into chattel slavery, especially Black Africans brought to the New World prior to the mid-19th century. Origin of slave trade First recorded in 1725–35 Words nearby slave trade slaver, Slave River, slavery, slave ship, slave state, slave trade, slavey, Slavic, Slavicism, Slavicist, slavish Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for slave trade The statesman felt it; it put new vigor into the despatches he wrote and the measures he devised with regard to the slave-trade. The Personal Life Of David Livingstone\|William Garden Blaikie Our fathers abolished the slave-trade, but permitted the continuation of domestic slavery. Aunt Phillis's Cabin\|Mary H. Eastman It was "twenty years before Wilberforce took the first step in England against the slave-trade." Quaker Hill\|Warren H. Wilson This being found an inadequate check, in 1824 the slave-trade was declared to be piracy and the punishment death. With Axe and Rifle\|W.H.G. Kingston The slave-trade rose to a great height in 1836, owing principally to the high price of colonial produce. Journal of an African Cruiser\|Horatio Bridge British Dictionary definitions for slave trade slave trade noun the business of trading in slaves, esp the transportation of Black Africans to America from the 16th to 19th centuries Derived forms of slave trade slave-trader, nounslave-trading, noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for slave trade slave trade The transportation of slaves from Africa to North and South America between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Congress banned the importing of slaves into the United States in 1808. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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