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

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slave ship

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

Ignatius Sancho, the author of “Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho,” is believed to have been born on a slave ship en route to the West Indies in 1729.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

They conjured: You cannot stare that hatred down or chain the fear that stalks the watches I was not in any slave ship.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates