The procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in black Africans as slaves by European countries and North America.This figure does not include the Arab slave trade nor the flourishing trade in slaves within Africa....
In order to white-wash the European slave trade, they find it convenient to start by minimising the numbers concerned.
While Europeans conducted the slave trade, Africans too were responsible for it.
Derivatives
slave trader
/ˈsleɪv ˌtreɪdə /noun...
Other cities seem less coy about their unsavoury histories: in Bristol you can visit a Georgian slave trader's house, and in Liverpool be guided along its ‘slavery trail’.
But local folklore said he was a slave trader, and his statue was almost the first thing to go in the riots.
As US courts have recognized, the torturer ‘like the pirate and slave trader before him,’ is ‘an enemy of all mankind.’