mass noun, usually as modifierThe action of enslaving people.
〈主史〉奴役
a slaving expedition
一次为奴役他人的远征。
Example sentencesExamples
The people in the Sulu islands (Jolo and Basilan being the largest) have a long and enthusiastic history of tribal wars, raiding, slaving and piracy.
Not so long ago, journalists would have called this a slaving operation of a sort.
Perhaps most revealing are postcolonial responses to the traumas of slaving and enslavement evident in stamps.
If you want to understand what happened, you need to differentiate between genocide and slaving.
But in fact there is evidence of slaving ships operating out of ports like Dublin.
Had British slaving and slave-ownership not existed in a context where British authority could plausibly be asserted to restrain it, British humanitarianism would have lacked such clear direction and purpose.
But Arab slaving - of both blacks and whites - has been going on for many centuries of course.
Each slaving voyage consisted of one ship coming in contact with various ‘worlds’ along the way.
In July 1977, aid workers found 400 children aboard a boat at Cotonou harbour - an historic slaving market which might see the return of another controversial ship carrying terrified children this weekend.
In Sudan, slaving is a tradition, a business and a tool of political oppression.
‘Then why did that slaving party come here not so long ago? ‘asked Julius.’