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SLAVE TRADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries
Synonyms:
slave trade; slave traffic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("slave trade" is a kind of...):
traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)