slave market

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slave market - a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War) market place, mart, marketplace, market - an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776