Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Traffic in slaves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The trade or business of procuring human beings by capture or purchase, transporting them to some distant country, and selling them as slaves; traffic in slaves. The slave-trade is now for the most part confined to Portuguese and Arabs in Africa. It was abolished in the British empire in 1807, and by Congress in the United States in 1807 (to take effect January 1st, 1808).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.
WordNet 3.0
- n. traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries
Examples
“Mr. Janes was then called, who testified that he called on Viga at New London, and asked him when the slave trade was prohibited, or made piracy.”
“In the days of the slave trade it was merely a trading station on the Coast of Guinea which at that time extended from the Senegal to the mouth of the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Such was the dilemma of William Wilberforce in his decades-long campaign to end the slave trade in late-eighteenth-century Britain.”
“Commissioner in the Mixed Court of Justice: that the duties of his office made him well acquainted with the details of slavery and slave trade in”
“I., whose eloquent exhortations banished the slave trade from a congregation growing rich on its spoils; and Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, who foretold that "future ages will be at a loss which to condemn most, our folly, or our guilt in abetting this direct violation of nature and religion.”
Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army
“The slave trade was rife in its worst form; men were sold out of the land, chiefly to the Danes of Ireland.”
“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.”
“There can be no question that Gordon was acting rightly in this case, as far as he himself was concerned, for Zebehr Pasha's son was carrying out the slave trade as far as he could, and died while resisting the orders of Government; but”
“Policing the White Nile north of Khartoum made little difference to a slave trade whose hunting grounds had shifted to the Gazelle River, and whose export routes now ran overland.”
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chained_bear "When the slave trade first began, every European country that profited from the purchase and sale of Africans would soon see a yellow fever epidemic.... Though Asia had the ideal climate and the right mosquito, it has never had an epidemic of yellow fever. It also never participated in the African slave trade."
—Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague (New York: Berkeley Books, 2006), 11 Oct 5, 2008