slave trade

English

Noun

slave trade (plural slave trades)

1. traffic in slaves
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

     There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.

Related terms

• slave trader

Translations

traffic in slaves

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奴隸貿易／奴隶贸易 (núlì màoyì), 奴隸販賣／奴隶贩卖 (núlì fànmài)

• Danish: slavehandel (da) c
• Dutch: slavenhandel (nl) m
• Finnish: orjakauppa (fi)
• French: commerce des esclaves m, traite négrière (fr) f
• Galician: trata de escravos
• German: Sklavenhandel (de) m
• Greek: δουλεμπόριο (el) n (doulempório)
• Hungarian: rabszolga-kereskedelem (hu)
• Japanese: 人身売買 (ja) (じんしんばいばい, jinshin baibai)
• Kazakh: құл саудасы (qūl saudasy)
• Manx: cochionneeaght sleab f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slavehandel m

  Nynorsk: slavehandel m

• Polish: handel niewolnikami m
• Russian: работорго́вля (ru) f (rabotorgóvlja), торго́вля раба́ми f (torgóvlja rabámi)
• Swahili: biashara ya watumwa
• Swedish: slavhandel (sv) c
• Ukrainian: работоргі́вля f (rabotorhívlja), торгі́вля раба́ми f (torhívlja rabámy)

Further reading

• slave trade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia