SLAVE TRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slave trade mean? 

• SLAVE TRADE (noun)
  The noun SLAVE TRADE has 1 sense:

1. traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries

  Familiarity information: SLAVE TRADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAVE TRADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

slave trade; slave traffic

Hypernyms ("slave trade" is a kind of...):

traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)