slave trade
noun
the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
Origin of slave trade
First recorded in 1725–35
Words nearby slave trade
slave labor,
slave labor camp,
slave river,
slave ship,
slave state,
slave trade,
slave-driver,
slave-making ant,
slaveholder,
slaveling,
slavenska
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British Dictionary definitions for slave trade
slave trade
noun
the business of trading in slaves, esp the transportation of Black Africans to America from the 16th to 19th centuries
Derived forms of slave trade
slave-trader, noun slave-trading, nounCultural definitions for slave trade
slave trade
The transportation of slaves from Africa to North and South America between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Congress banned the importing of slaves into the United States in 1808.