slave trade

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Noun

slave trade (plural slave trades)

  1. traffic in slaves
    • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
      There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.

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