slave traffic

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Definition
  1. Noun:
    • The commercial buying and selling of human beings as slaves: "slave traffic" specifically refers to the trade, transport, and commerce of enslaved people.
    • Historical context of the transatlantic trade: The term is strongly associated with the systematic transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Usage
  • "Slave traffic" is used as a historical and legal term to describe the system and practice of trading slaves. It is often discussed in the context of colonial economies, human rights violations, and abolitionist movements.
  • It functions as a compound noun. The term itself is the subject of discussion.
Examples
  • Noun:
    • The 1807 Act aimed to abolish the British slave traffic. (This law sought to end the British trade in slaves.)
    • Profits from the slave traffic funded many early industries. (Earnings from the commerce in slaves financed numerous early industrial ventures.)
    • International treaties were eventually signed to suppress the slave traffic. (Agreements between nations were finally established to stop the trade of slaves.)
Advanced Usage
  • "to suppress the slave traffic": a phrase used in historical and legal discourse meaning to use force or law to stop the trade in slaves.
    • The navy patrolled the coast to suppress the slave traffic.
Variants and Related Words
  • Slave trade (n): A more common synonym for "slave traffic," referring to the same historical commerce.
    • The Atlantic slave trade was a horrific chapter in history.
  • Trafficking (n): In modern usage, this often refers to illegal trade, such as "human trafficking" or "drug trafficking." It shares the root meaning of illicit transport and trade.
    • Human trafficking is a serious contemporary crime.
Synonyms
  • Slave trade: The business of capturing, transporting, and selling slaves.
  • Human trafficking (historical context): In a modern historical sense, this can describe the same system, though contemporary "human trafficking" has broader legal definitions.
Related Phrases
  • Traffic in slaves: This verb phrase is the action described by the noun "slave traffic."
    • Several nations made it illegal to traffic in slaves.
Noun
  1. traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries

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