Translation guide
The buying and selling of human beings as property, historically across the Atlantic and within other regions. In Japanese, this is expressed with specific compound nouns.
Referring to the transatlantic slave trade or similar historical systems of buying and selling enslaved people.
The standard term for the historical slave trade, especially the transatlantic slave trade.
奴隷貿易は何百万人ものアフリカ人の生活を破壊した。
The slave trade destroyed the lives of millions of Africans.
Literally 'slave buying and selling', used for the act of trading slaves, often in historical contexts.
この港はかつて奴隷売買の中心地だった。
This port was once a center of the slave trade.