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Slave Trade

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The traffic in slaves, or the buying and selling of slaves for profit. It is either foreign or domestic. The former is when the trade includes transportation from a foreign state; the latter, when confined within a single state or states connected in a federal union.