SLAVE MARKET

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("slave market" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

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