slave-trading
Meaning
Slave-trading is the buying and selling of people as property for forced labor. It involved capture, transport, and abuse, and stripped victims of freedom. Once widespread, it is illegal and condemned worldwide today.
Synonyms
Examples
After suffering a severe stroke in 1754, he gave up seafaring and slave-trading activities.
Laurens had earned great wealth as a partner in the largest slave-trading house in North America (Austin and Laurens).
At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.
This is largely owing to the 17th century shipwreck of a slave-trading galleon off the northern coast of Ecuador.
It maintained the existing ban on international slave-trading while protecting the existing internal trade of slaves among slaveholding states.
The author traces a single bloodline across seven generations, beginning with Ghanaian half-sisters Effia, who is married off to a British colonizer in the 1760s, and Esi, who is captured into the British slave-trading system around the same time.