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Slave traffic   /sleɪv trˈæfɪk/   Listen
Slave traffic

noun
1.
Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries.  Synonym: slave trade.






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"Slave traffic" Quotes from Famous Books



... and many of the problems of the United States as a whole are made more acute by the waste of the country community. Among these should be cited the amusement question in the small town, the decadence of the theatre in the cheaper vaudeville, the white slave traffic and the social disorders peculiar to unskilled laborers, many of whom come from country communities of ...
— The Evolution of the Country Community - A Study in Religious Sociology • Warren H. Wilson

... his great play that aroused such wide-spread controversy, the book tells of a secret service officer's investigations into the White Slave traffic; of his discovery of the girl he loved in a disreputable employment agency and of her dramatic rescue. A true situation, depicted boldly and frankly but without pruriency. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated from scenes ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... bluntly, Miss Addams let her impatience get the better of her wisdom. She had written brilliantly about sex and its "sublimation," she had suggested notable "moral equivalents" for vice, but when she touched the white slave traffic its horrors were so great that she also put her faith in the policeman and the district attorney. "A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil" is an hysterical book, just because the real philosophical basis of Miss Addams' ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... protection, but on hearing I was opposed to slave-dealing, it could not be done, as he and all the merchants were obliged to deal in slaves. Indeed, the obstacle of English merchants joining the Tripoline is at present insuperable, on account of the slave traffic; if they could unite in one firm, it would be ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... heard a great deal about the white slave traffic, as every one who keeps his ears open in the big city must. Do you think the ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball


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