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  • noun One who buys and sells people as slaves.

Etymologies

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slave +‎ dealer

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Examples

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • I have some knowledge of that astute ex-slavedealer and trader's ways in the Eastern Soudan and elsewhere.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • He issued orders for the apprehension of the slavedealer.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves, to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Angelina Emily Grimke 1842

  • Again, you have among you a sneaking individual of the class of native tyrants known as the "slavedealer."

    Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • Again, you have among you a sneaking individual of the class of native tyrants known as the "slavedealer."

    The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 Abraham Lincoln 1837

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