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SLAVE MARKET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("slave market" is a kind of...):
market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
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