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Definition of Slave trade
1. Noun. Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries.
Definition of Slave trade
1. Noun. traffic in slaves ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slave Trade
Literary usage of Slave trade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1857)
"TAKE the American slave trade, which, we are told by the papers, ... It is
called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave trade) " the internal slave ..."
2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"TAKE the American slave trade, which, we are told by the papers, ... It is
called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave trade) " the internal slare ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"LEGALIZING THE slave trade. [The following article is copied into the Living Age
from the New York Albion, (a most intelligent paper, conducted hy an ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
""No doubt," he said, "could exist that this was a French ship, intentionally
engaged in the slave trade." But, as these were facts which were ascertained in ..."
5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton, Richard Henry Dana (1866)
"Willes, in which the point of the illegality of the slave-trade, under the general
law of nations, came incidentally in question. ..."
6. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"By section 1. the African slave trade, and all manner of dealing in the purchase
or sale of slaves from Africa, is, after the 1st of May, ..."
7. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"In 1787, in connection with Thomas Clarkson, and with Pitt's support, he began
the agitation against the slave trade, which finally ended in its abolition, ..."
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