Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who trades in slaves; a slaver.

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Examples

  • And what most people don't know about John Newton is that after he got saved he continued to work as a slave-trader for six years, and he didn't become an abolitionist for another three and a half decades after that.

    Briallen Hopper: Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works Briallen Hopper 2011

  • And what most people don't know about John Newton is that after he got saved he continued to work as a slave-trader for six years, and he didn't become an abolitionist for another three and a half decades after that.

    Briallen Hopper: Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works Briallen Hopper 2011

  • Other notables include the rotund Peter Ustinov providing comic relief as a cowardly slave-trader, and Charles Laughton, who lends gravitas as a senior Roman senator.

    John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95! John Farr 2011

  • Suppose some learned scholar were to discover a Fifth Gospel which proved beyond doubt that Our Lord survived the Cross and became a bandit or a slave-trader, or a politician, even - d'you think it would disturb the Christian faith one little bit?

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Only too late did Flashman discover that the ship was an illegal slave-trader and her captain, despite his academic antecedents, a homicidal eccentric.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "You'll pay through the nose for him, too, but you'll be getting a safe, scholarly man of affairs who'll not only manage a fleet, but can be trusted to see that no indiscreet inquiries are ever directed at your recent American activities, or the fact that your signature as supercargo is to be found on the articles of a slave-trader -"

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Rimbaud, who famously quit writing poetry when he was 20 years old to become a gun runner, slave-trader and vague signifier of adolescent rebellion, had just had his gangrenous leg amputated when he spoke those words.

    Punk Icon Patti Smith Waxes Poetic at Robert Miller Gallery 2009

  • During the transaction, the Americans met with Jack Ben, a prominent Bassa slave-trader.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • During the transaction, the Americans met with Jack Ben, a prominent Bassa slave-trader.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Rimbaud, who famously quit writing poetry when he was 20 years old to become a gun runner, slave-trader and vague signifier of adolescent rebellion, had just had his gangrenous leg amputated when he spoke those words.

    Punk Icon Patti Smith Waxes Poetic at Robert Miller Gallery 2009

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