The term "slave traders" refers to people who buy and sell slaves, treating them as property rather than individuals with rights and freedom. They profit from enslaving and exploiting others. Full definition
The Atlantic slave trade involved the forced transportation by slave traders of enslaved Africans, mainly from Africa to the Americas between the 16th to the 19th centuries. (citifmonline.com)
He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator. (markedmovies.org)
A boy captured by slave traders in eighteenth - century Africa is brought to the Americas. (booklistonline.com)