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Slave market   /sleɪv mˈɑrkət/   Listen
Slave market

noun
1.
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



... heading straight after the Bozra. A long race it would be, but with the gale so light the chances were against the sea-mouse. Hasdrubal had no need to urge his crew to rig out the oars and tug furiously, if they wished to escape a Greek prison and a slave market. ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... But if she drops half-way it's better than if she'd never flown. Your sister, sir, is trying the wings of her spirit, out of the old slave market. For women as for men, there's more than one kind of dishonour, Captain Huntingdon, and worse things ...
— Quotations from the Works of John Galsworthy • David Widger
... more frequent one of a remarkably gentle and sweet expression. He was, however, jet black, and certainly did not owe these personal advantages to any mixture in his blood. There is a certain African tribe from which the West Indian slave market is chiefly recruited, who have these same characteristic features, and do not at all present the ignoble and ugly negro type, so much more commonly seen here. They are a tall, powerful people, with remarkably fine figures, regular features, and a singularly ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... of. forests of. frequency of earthquakes in. population of. plains of. port of. climate of. ancient name of. slave market of. government of. mountains of. cacao of. languages of. trading boats of. departure from. return to. ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt


Words linked to "Slave market" :   United States, US, U.S., America, U.S.A., mart, USA, market, marketplace, the States, market place, United States of America


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