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/sleɪv trˈæfɪk/ Listen

Slave traffic

noun

Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries. Synonym: slave trade.

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... slaveholders paid but little regard to family relations. Mrs. Rowlandson's daughter Mary was sold for a gun by a praying Indian, who first chanced to grasp her. The Christian Indians joined in this war against the whites, and shared in all the emoluments of the slave traffic which it introduced. Mary was ten years of age, a child of cultured mind and lovely character. She was purchased by an Indian who resided in the town where the Indian army was now encamped. When the poor slave mother ...

— King Philip - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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