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Slave trade   /sleɪv treɪd/   Listen
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Slave  n.  
1.
A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. "Art thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge?"
2.
One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
3.
A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
4.
An abject person; a wretch.
Slave ant (Zool.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.
Slave catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master.
Slave coast, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners.
Slave driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster.
Slave hunt.
(a)
A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery.
(b)
A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds.
Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver.
Slave trade, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.
Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.
Synonyms: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See Serf.






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"Slave trade" Quotes from Famous Books



... of negroes. They were imported sometimes by way of the West Indies, often directly from Guinea, and were sold at auction to the highest bidder. The average price was less than $140." With the extension of English rule to N.Y. in 1664 the slave trade in this colony passed into the hands of the British. It is estimated that the total import of slaves into all the British colonies of America and the West Indies from 1680 to 1786 was 2,130,000. The traffic was then carried on principally from Liverpool, ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous

... The Assembly of Virginia in 1770 attempted to restrict the slave trade. Other colonies made the same effort, but Parliament vetoed these measures, accompanying its action with the blunt statement that the slave trade was profitable to England. Observe how effectively Burke uses his ...
— Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America • Edmund Burke



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