slave market
People-selling venue
A slave market is a place where enslaved people are bought and sold.
Historically, such markets operated openly in societies practicing slavery: The slave market in Charleston conducted weekly auctions.
The term now appears primarily in historical contexts or to describe modern human trafficking operations.
Podium for public sales
- chattelMovable personal property
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
- triangular tradeThree-legged Atlantic exchange system
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
emancipation · antebellum · plantation · manumission · colonialism · diaspora · human trafficking · bondage
auction block
Podium for public sales
- chattelMovable personal property
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
- triangular tradeThree-legged Atlantic exchange system
abolition · emancipation · antebellum · plantation · manumission · colonialism · diaspora · human trafficking · bondage · shackles
- Colonial Eracolonial assembly, colonial charter, colonial militia, colonial port, crown colony
- slaverybondage, chattel, thrall, Middle Passage, slaveholders
- Orientalismodalisque, orientalism, Egyptology, snake charmer, harems
- slave tradeleg irons, human cargo, triangle trade, auction block, chattel
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- marketsbazaar, souk, vendors, food stalls, Grand Bazaar
slave marketjob fair
Employment recruitment gathering
employment agency · hiring hall · career center · temp agency · job market
slave marketfreedom
Absence of constraint
emancipation · liberation · sanctuary · human rights tribunal · abolitionist movement
slave, market, slaves, slaved, slaving, slavish, slavishly, slavery, enslaved