slave market

Noun

Meaning

a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)

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Slavery was introduced to Manhattan in 1626, but it was not until December 13, 1711, that the New York City Common Council made Wall Street the city's first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Africans and Indians. Source: Internet

These Tib used to caravan ivory back to Zanzibar, then sold them in the slave market for large profits. Source: Internet

This would be the most advantageous plan, since the money exchange was immediate and direct, not long and drawn out as in the slave market business; 3. The captive could be used immediately by the corsair for labour on the ship rather than traded. Source: Internet

Since most of these nations did not have a prison system, convicts were often sold or used in the scattered local domestic slave market. Source: Internet

Volantis is incredibly important to the slave market, and in the city there are five slaves to every free man. Source: Internet

In its day, the hall had been a church, an office, a college, a slave market, and, most importantly, the Court of Policy. Source: Internet

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