slave trader
C7418
concept
A slave trader is a person or entity that profits from the buying, selling, and transporting of human beings as property, historically central to systems of chattel slavery and human exploitation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| slave trader canonical | 5 |
| former slave ship captain | 1 |
| slave ship captain | 1 |
| trading people | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: slave trader
Generated description
A slave trader is a person or entity that profits from the buying, selling, and transporting of human beings as property, historically central to systems of chattel slavery and human exploitation.
Instances (8)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| John Hawkins | — |
| James Nourse | slave ship captain |
| John Wayles | — |
| Pomor merchants | trading people |
| Mr. Haley | — |
| Henry Laurens | — |
| John Brown (Rhode Island merchant) | — |
| John Newton | former slave ship captain |