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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Last year, Benin adopted a law opening the door to citizenship for descendants with connections to the country, including through DNA testing, and who were forced to leave through the slave trade.
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
This is an intellectual grace that anyone who understands the colonial ties to Christianity an its uses to justify horrors like the Transatlantic slave trade and colonization could find challenging to reconcile.
—Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
And so knowing that these pleasurable activities were used to basically link slave markets in Africa to slave ships lined off the coast, and that how, this pleasure also produced such misery for the people who endured the transatlantic slave trade.
—Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
According to the New York Botanical Garden, okra originated from the African region around Ethiopia, and the plant arrived in the South in the early 1700s with the slave trade.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
This is an intellectual grace that anyone who understands the colonial ties to Christianity an its uses to justify horrors like the Transatlantic slave trade and colonization could find challenging to reconcile.
—Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
And so knowing that these pleasurable activities were used to basically link slave markets in Africa to slave ships lined off the coast, and that how, this pleasure also produced such misery for the people who endured the transatlantic slave trade.
—Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
According to the New York Botanical Garden, okra originated from the African region around Ethiopia, and the plant arrived in the South in the early 1700s with the slave trade.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for slave trade
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“Slave trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20trade. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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