slavers

Lets saliva escape

Slavers has two pronunciations for two meanings.

With a long A, slavers are people who deal in slaves—those who capture, transport, or sell human beings.

The ships used in the slave trade were also called slavers.

With a short A, slavers means drools or produces excessive saliva: The dog slavers at the sight of food.

Figuratively, to slaver over something is to desire it excessively: Critics slavered over her debut novel.

salivation

drool

Saliva spilling out

spit · foam · dribble · saliva · gland · tongue · palate · taste · appetite · hunger

trafficking

human trafficking

Criminal trade in people

auction · cargo · transport · abduction · kidnapping · plantation · servitude · chains · shackles · abolition

vessels

hull

Outer covering or frame

  • deckShip's flat surface
  • holdMaintain in grasp
  • cargoTransported goods

voyage · crossing · Atlantic · maritime · fleet · captain · crew · port · harbor · anchor

Categories
Opposites
moral stance on human freedom

slaversabolitionists

Those opposing human bondage

liberators · emancipators · freedom fighters · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass

role in slavery system

slaversfreedmen

People released from slavery

runaways · maroons

oral moisture control

slaversswallows

Gulps or migratory birds

gulps · parched

Phrases
Family

slave, slavery, enslave, enslaved, enslavement, slaver, slaveholding, slaveholder, slavering

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13