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.
Umbilical Cord Problems. An umbilical is the lifeline from an unborn child to the mother. Itâs responsible for supplying nutrients and oxygen from the motherâs bloodstream to the infantâs bloodstream, as well as supplying a blood supply to the infant and eliminating wastes. Without it, an infant cannot survive during the gestational period.