slave market

1. 1.

   a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)

   Broadermarketplace

   United States

Questions about slave market

What does slave market mean?

slave market means "a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)".

Is slave market a common word?

slave market is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.