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Definition of "slave trade" []

  • Traffic in slaves. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "slave trade" in a sentence
  • "Such was the dilemma of William Wilberforce in his decades-long campaign to end the slave trade in late-eighteenth-century Britain."
  • "I remember big, dark women crying and screaming at me about Jews involved in the slave trade and pulling books off shelves everywhere to prove it, as they attacked me for not questioning my white-skin privileges."
  • "British moral outrage fixed on the Sudanese slave trade as an affront to humanity comparable to the East African trade, and on Khedive Ismail as its ally against evil."