slave markets
Bondage trading posts
Slave markets were locations where enslaved human beings were bought and sold as property.
These ranged from informal trading posts to elaborate auction houses: The slave markets of Charleston handled thousands of sales annually.
The term now appears primarily in historical contexts, though contemporary usage describes modern human trafficking: Authorities discovered an underground slave market operating across three countries.
- chattel slaveryPersons owned as movable property
- auctioneerConducts public sales
- Barbary corsairsNorth African maritime raiders
- captivesPeople held by force
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
slavery · coffle · trade · human trafficking · Middle Passage · enslavement · concubinage · block · sold down the river · buying and selling · barracoon · bill of sale · flesh trade · debt bondage · triangular trade · shackles · bidding · chains
- Islamic slaveryconcubine, manumission, captives, trans-Saharan trade, amah
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, enslavement, bondage, chattel
- heritage tourismheritage trails, heritage centers, plantation tours, battlefield tours, historic forts
- Orientalismodalisque, orientalism, Egyptology, snake charmer, harems
- slave tradeleg irons, human cargo, triangle trade, auction block, African slaves
- colonial slaverychattel slavery, African slaves, plantation system, bondage, servitude
slave marketsjob fairs
Employer-candidate meetups for hiring
employment agencies · hiring halls · staffing agencies · job boards · talent agencies
slave marketsemancipation
Release from legal bondage
freedom · liberty · manumission · human rights · citizenship
slave marketsabolition movements
Campaigns to end slavery
Underground Railroad · liberation · abolitionist societies · liberation movements · sanctuary cities