barracoon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of barracoon
1850–55, < Spanish barracón, equivalent to barrac ( a ) hut ( see barrack 1) + -on augmentative suffix
Example Sentences
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These newcomers patrol the coast like abolitionist avengers, superpowering their way through every coffle and barracoon they encounter.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2019
“De barracoon we in ain’ the only slave pen at the place,” he remembers.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018
Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the "Jinkimba" or circumcised boys, who received us with unearthly yells.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
At South Bay we came upon a grassy clearing larger than usual, near a bright stream; its pottery and charred wood showed the site of the Spanish barracoon destroyed by the British in 1840.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Each barracoon was tended by two or four Spaniards or Portuguese; but I have rarely met a more wretched class of human beings, upon whom fever and dropsy seemed to have emptied their vials.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
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