slave ship

American  

noun

1. a ship for transporting enslaved captives from their native homes to places of bondage.

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slave ship British  

noun

1. a ship used to transport slaves, esp formerly from Africa to the New World

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Etymology

Origin of slave ship

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

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slave ship

“I was looking at the slave ship and I was looking at the whaling ship, and what I noticed was that of course with the slave ship, the cargo is the African bodies,” Brooks said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

Black history is gaining more attention with books about, for instance, the Tulsa massacre and the slave ship Clotilda, but books like yours and Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed” take a broader approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Illness was the slave ship captains’ constant fear.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The story is told by Anthony Gibbons who recalls his descendants being transported on a slave ship.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2022

Then she went to singing a Nigerian grief song learned from her daddy, who was lured onto an illegal slave ship in 1848, when he was only twelve.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns