Definitions for slave-trade

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Slave-Trade is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 690 anagrams from letters in slave-trade (-aadeelrstv).

Definitions for slave-trade

noun

  1. the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.

Origin of slave-trade

First recorded in 1725-35

Examples for slave-trade

After years of protracted struggle, the slave trade was abolished.

Lockwood Harris might marry her; he got all his money from the slave trade.

He was firm to the end in his effort to abolish the slave trade.

Enzo Cilenti as Yezzan: “Yezzan was an extremely wealthy slave trader before Daenerys Targaryen outlawed the slave trade.”

“The descendants of those collaborators [with the slave trade] are still with us,” said Soyinka.

It has all the horrors, all the brutalities, all the degradations of the slave trade at its worst.

The slave trade in Africa was dealt its death-blow by Dr. Livingstone.

In shock, he decided that only new colonies (preferably British) would stop the slave trade.

There might be something about the “Dixie” flag as a symbol of the slave trade of human beings that could be a reason.

Until Haiti, abolitionists focused on either gradual emancipation, or simply ending the slave trade, not slavery itself.

Word Value for slave-trade
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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