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Slave market

noun

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

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"Slave market" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Arab pig! He led me to Ujiji—that's on Lake Tanganika—the old slave market where he himself was once sold for ten cents. I don't doubt a piece of betel nut and a pair of worn-out shoes had to be thrown in with him at the price! There he tried to make me pay the expenses in ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... 1826, and prepared the way for far more severe measures later. The idea of all legislation of this nature argues clearly the discouragement of slavery as a prevailing institution, by means of preventing fresh importations for sale. Tennessee was not to be, if it could be prevented, a slave market, like Mississippi. ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

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