slave trader
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9.1
- noun
- /sleɪv ˈtreɪdər/
- NSFW
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traficante de esclavos
- The exhibition showcased artifacts from the ships once used by slave traders to transport their human cargo.
- Arab slave trader
I'll say something like Muhammad was a slave trader.
- I'll say something like Muhammad was a slave trader.
- So wherever the Roman army went in its wake would be literally a train of slave traders.
- So in if you are an if you're an Arab speaking slave trader, the that word means something entirely different.
Examples
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Against this background, the various interactions between pirates, slave traders, and the Malagasy populations are of particular interest.
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But the US has a large African American population because of white plantation owners, white slave traders, and white politicians.
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Did the people move, quickly convert to Islam, or fall victim to slave traders?
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Slave traders took millions of people, but can we name a single victim?
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His success as a slave trader is also in doubt.
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Gordon, the man is a slave trader.
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Bought by a Spanish settler from a slave trader.
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His grandfather told him that their ancestors had taken refuge from slave traders in the caves.
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As a result of the TVPA, the United States has been much more successful in cracking down on slave traders than most other countries have been.
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In the nineteenth century, the Zula were often allies of Arab slave traders from the Swahili coast, such as the notorious Tippu Tip.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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9.6
A person who buys and sells people as slaves
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9.9
A person who buys and sells people to force them to work without freedom
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who buys and sells people as slaves' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'slave' (a person owned/forced to work) with 'trader' (someone engaged in trade). This straightforward noun+noun compound follows common cross-linguistic patterns and contains no idiomatic shift, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The compound slave trader is a direct, literal name: a trader who bought and sold slaves at ports and in markets. The clear image of people treated like goods explains why the phrase means 'a person who buys and sells people'.