slave traffic

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsslave trade

   Broadertraffic

Questions about slave traffic

What does slave traffic mean?

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

What is another word for slave traffic?

Close synonyms include slave trade. 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 traffic a common word?

slave traffic 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.