slave trader
Seller of people
A slave trader is a person who buys and sells human beings as property.
The term applies especially to those who participated in the Atlantic slave trade from the 16th through 19th centuries, transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas.
The slave trader inspected the captives before making his purchase.
The term carries strong moral condemnation in modern usage.
Transaction intermediary for hire
- auctioneerConducts public sales
- traffickerIllegal goods dealer
- middlemanAgent linking two parties
- smugglerIllegal goods transporter
profiteer · speculator · cargo · contraband · commodity · transaction · purchase · consignment
Transatlantic slave trade crossing
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- auction blockPodium for public sales
- chattelMovable personal property
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
colonialism · manacles · abolitionism · Amistad · Underground Railroad · Emancipation Proclamation · Harriet Tubman · antebellum
Causing intense revulsion
- heinousOdiously, shockingly evil
- villainousExtremely wicked or criminal
- despicableMorally worthless, beneath regard
- nefariousExtremely evil or villainous
odious · reviled · condemned · notorious · infamous · shameful · ignominious · detested
broker
Transaction intermediary for hire
- auctioneerConducts public sales
- traffickerIllegal goods dealer
- middlemanAgent linking two parties
smuggler · profiteer · speculator · cargo · contraband · commodity · transaction · purchase · consignment · inventory
Middle Passage
Transatlantic slave trade crossing
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- auction blockPodium for public sales
- chattelMovable personal property
plantation · colonialism · manacles · abolitionism · Amistad · Underground Railroad · Emancipation Proclamation · Harriet Tubman · antebellum · abolition
abhorrent
Causing intense revulsion
- heinousOdiously, shockingly evil
- villainousExtremely wicked or criminal
- despicableMorally worthless, beneath regard
nefarious · odious · reviled · condemned · notorious · infamous · shameful · ignominious · detested · loathed
- tradersmerchant, retailer, vendor, wholesaler, importer
- slaverychattel slavery, bondage, chattel, thrall, Middle Passage
- slave tradeleg irons, human cargo, auction block, chattel, manacles
- ancient rolespharaoh, chieftain, tribal chief, tribal leader, village elder
- ancient merchantswine merchant
- colonistscolonists, settler, Pilgrims, colonials, colonist
slave traderabolitionist
Opponent of human bondage
emancipator · Harriet Tubman · freedom fighter · Frederick Douglass · William Wilberforce
slave traderslave
Owned human, forced laborer
captive · bondsman · human cargo · chattel
slave traderliberator
One who frees others
emancipator · rescuer · redeemer · ransomer
trade, dealer, slave, trader, trading, slaves, tradesman, enslave, enslaved