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单词 slave trade
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Definition of slave trade in English:

slave trade

noun
mass nounhistorical
  • The procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in black Africans as slaves by European countries and North America.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Muslims were involved in the trans-Saharan slave trade, as well as more legitimate trade.
    • The slave trade was a horrible stain on our country's history, but we need to move on in order for us to achieve.
    • The slave trade and ivory attracted the interest of other European countries.
    • The South African document singles out the trans-Atlantic slave trade for censure.
    • The prize these early imperialists craved was control of the West African slave trade.
    • This figure does not include the Arab slave trade nor the flourishing trade in slaves within Africa.
    • While Europeans conducted the slave trade, Africans too were responsible for it.
    • In order to white-wash the European slave trade, they find it convenient to start by minimising the numbers concerned.
    • And we are united on the issue that the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity.
    • Even the African slave trade enriched the rulers and merchants who supplied the slaves.

Derivatives

  • slave trader

  • nounˈsleɪv ˌtreɪdəˈsleɪv ˌtreɪdər
    historical
    • Other cities seem less coy about their unsavoury histories: in Bristol you can visit a Georgian slave trader's house, and in Liverpool be guided along its ‘slavery trail’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But local folklore said he was a slave trader, and his statue was almost the first thing to go in the riots.
      • As US courts have recognized, the torturer ‘like the pirate and slave trader before him,’ is ‘an enemy of all mankind.’
      • After a time on the boat with Haley, Tom has won the slave trader's trust and is permitted to walk around the boat unfettered.
      • A millionaire plantation owner and slave trader, Forrest joined the Confederate army as a private in June 1861 and bulled his way up the ranks to general.
 
 

Definition of slave trade in US English:

slave trade

nounˈsleɪv ˌtreɪdˈslāv ˌtrād
historical
  • The procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in African blacks as slaves by European countries and North America.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And we are united on the issue that the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity.
    • While Europeans conducted the slave trade, Africans too were responsible for it.
    • The slave trade and ivory attracted the interest of other European countries.
    • The South African document singles out the trans-Atlantic slave trade for censure.
    • In order to white-wash the European slave trade, they find it convenient to start by minimising the numbers concerned.
    • The slave trade was a horrible stain on our country's history, but we need to move on in order for us to achieve.
    • The prize these early imperialists craved was control of the West African slave trade.
    • This figure does not include the Arab slave trade nor the flourishing trade in slaves within Africa.
    • Even the African slave trade enriched the rulers and merchants who supplied the slaves.
    • Muslims were involved in the trans-Saharan slave trade, as well as more legitimate trade.
 
 
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