slave trade

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsslave traffic

   Broadertraffic

Questions about slave trade

What does slave trade mean?

slave trade means "traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries".

What is another word for slave trade?

Close synonyms include slave traffic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slave trade a common word?

slave trade 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.