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slave traffic

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Noun1.slave traffic - traffic in slavesslave traffic - traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries
traffic - buying and selling; especially illicit trade


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The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: March 11, 1909: While the legislators are endeavoring to make a record in cleaning the moral atmosphere of New Mexico, they should repeal the nefarious law that places a legal sanction upon bawdy houses and in its place enact a statute that penalizes the white slave traffic.
But why have they nothing to say on raiders from further East than West Africa who carried slave traffic well into the 20th Century, or foreigners currently operating openly at our air and sea ports, immune from interference that might offend their human rights?
Edward Janney, The White Slave Traffic in America 56, 61 (1911) ("We have found no evidence of the existence in the County of New York of any organization or organizations, incorporated or otherwise, engaged as such in the traffic in women for immoral purposes, nor have we found evidence of an organized traffic in women for immoral purposes.
 
 
 
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