slave-merchant

• ““Saladin seems to have been encamped without Damascus and the slave-merchant had apparently come out and pitched his tent near the camp for the purposes of his trade.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• ““Bid the slave-merchant enter,” says the Turkish voluptuary with a wave of his hand.”

  Vanity Fair

• “Then at another time he would be convinced that the attachment of menials might satisfy the longings of his affectionate heart, and thereupon he would give orders to his slave-merchant for something in the way of eternal fidelity.”

  Eothen

• “Sent out in 1795 by the African Society of London, he got as far as Bambarra, saw the Niger, travelled five hundred miles with a slave-merchant, reconnoitred the Gambia River, and returned to England in 1797.”

  Five Weeks in a Balloon

• “A slave-merchant with a dozen negroes managed to save all of them, inasmuch as, being valuable, he had them stowed away in a better place.”

  Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada

• “These girls were the daughters of the serfs and poorer class of persons; those of nobles, chiefs, and men of means being rarely if ever sold to the slave-merchant.”

  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia

• “The arts of the slave-merchant have inflamed the hostility of their various tribes, and heightened their ferocity by sedulously increasing their wars.”

  Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)

• “The calculating slave-merchant Haley, who has his own notions of mercy, and practises it because it pays.”

  Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.

• “He can scarcely repress his disgust and contempt for the slave-merchant, and is only led to deal with him by the danger of losing his position in society.”

  Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.

• “In the first year of Nergal-sharezer a slave-merchant of Harran sold three slaves for 45 shekels, while a little later 32 shekels were given for a female slave.”

  Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs

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