slave trade

noun

: trafficking of enslaved people

especially, in U.S. history : the business or practice of capturing, transporting, selling, and buying enslaved African people for profit prior to the American Civil War

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Successive British governments have resisted calls to formally apologize for the slave trade, or to entertain the prospect of reparations. —

Rob Picheta, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024 The last two articles, important in the consideration of economic freedom as an essential aspect of human freedom, stress private property, and commit Great Britain to help abolish the slave trade. —

Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 Over the course of the transatlantic slave trade, around 4 million Africans were captured and enslaved in Brazil, most from present-day Angola and many of Yoruba descent, an ethnic group that now spans parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. —

Essence, 10 Oct. 2024 Part of the reason the state eventually outlawed the international slave trade was that new supplies from overseas would dilute the value of Virginia’s own production of enslaved humans. —

Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for slave trade