That second forced migration was known as the domestic, or internal, slave trade: âIn the seven decades between the ratification of the Constitution [in 1787] and the Civil War [1861],â the historian Walter Johnson tells us in his book Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, âapproximately one million enslaved people were relocated ...
plural umbilical cords. Learner's definition of UMBILICAL CORD. [count] : a long, narrow tube that connects an unborn baby to the placenta of its mother â sometimes used figuratively. The time has come to cut/sever the umbilical cord that keeps us dependent on foreign aid.
The umbilical cord is made up of: 1  one vein that carries blood rich in oxygen and nutrients from you to your baby. 2  two arteries that return deoxygenated blood and waste products, such as carbon dioxide, from your baby back to the placenta.