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The black market is, by definition, illegal. The term black market is slang for illegal market.

It can refer to the trade of illegal items, such as drugs, or it can refer to an illegal method of trading items, such as the black market distribution of human organs.

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Because the things are sold "in the black" as in a secret, illegal manner.

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