NOUN
- a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)
How To Use slave market In A Sentence
- The primary slave market in ancient Greece was on an island in the Aegean sea known as "Delos". Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- The slave trade had been banned, but because of the still legal and still potent domestic slave market in America, there was still much money to be had by unscrupulous scumbags.
- Or at least the relief that some must have felt. For others, taken captive by wild tribesmen then sold to merchants, the town's infamous slave market would only be the latest stage of their nightmare.
- In her mind, slave markets were merely fodder for tales designed to shock defiant little girls into greater obedience.
- Before they entered the slave market or inspected a slave, many slaveholders had well-developed ideas about what they would find there.
- Born a slave two decades before, in the 1820s, Parker had been taken from his mother at age eight and forced to walk in chains from Virginia to Alabama, where he was sold on the slave market.
- Sometimes the Moors sell prisoners in the slave markets.
- Have you got a servant at the slave market?
- They were passing the crowded slave market.
- Or at least the relief that some must have felt. For others, taken captive by wild tribesmen then sold to merchants, the town's infamous slave market would only be the latest stage of their nightmare.