Meaning of Slaving | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Enslavement.
2. The transport of slaves, especially by sea.

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Examples

“The missionaries, soon after the restoration was complete, developed a nostalgia for the old days: the past slavings and excesses of the Muslims and Biheans, who had been the major armed aliens in the region, paled in comparison to the Congo Free State's cruel exercise of its monopolies of rubber and ivory as well as its military license.”

“These two ships would then chase, stop, and search ships, and if the ships were found with slaves aboard or equipped for slaving, the ships were seized, any slaves freed, and fines imposed.”

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