Definition of "slave market" []

• A marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Caravans then walked three hundred miles to the Red Sea ports of Suakin and Massowa, where they were shipped across the Red Sea to the giant Arabian slave market at Jeddah."
• "Mr. Benson J. Lossing informs us that Mrs. Wheatley, of Boston, possessed herself of her at the slave market in Boston, Mass., about the year 1761."
• "Like so many in the New York and New England shipping trade—the Beekmans and Livingstons and Cabots and Lodges—the Devrey fortune had been built on Guinea ships bringing live cargo to the slave market on Wall Street."