slave ship

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noun

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

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Origin of slave ship

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby slave ship

slave-making ant, Slavenska, slaver, Slave River, slavery, slave ship, slave state, slave trade, slavey, Slavic, Slavicism

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How to use slave ship in a sentence

It’s as though I’m somehow linked to my ancestors who jumped off slave ships to drown rather than give in to a captive existence.
Did My Uncle Drown or Was He Murdered?|jversteegh|November 22, 2021|Outside Online
The visitor can also take a grim 3-D virtual tour of the slave ship L’Aurore, for which a complete set of building plans survives.
Smithsonian African American museum launches online interactive access|Michael Ruane|November 18, 2021|Washington Post
The doctors who served on slave ships, colonial regimes and throughout the empire became the first epidemiologists.
How the Origins of Epidemiology Are Linked to the Transatlantic Slave Trade|Jim Downs|September 2, 2021|Time
A dimly lit space that felt more like a claustrophobic ambling in the dark, it echoes what it might have felt like on a slave ship on a brutal journey to an unknown land, stolen from the only home you’d known.
A vacation town promises rest and relaxation. The water knows the truth.|Nneka M. Okona|August 26, 2021|Vox

This very moment, there is a slave ship discharging her cargo, and the slaves are singing as they go ashore.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
He confesses in that book that later he became a great admirer of Turner, though perhaps never of the "Slave Ship" picture.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
It was in this year, on the 26th of February, that the slave-ship "Desire" landed a cargo of Negroes in the colony.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1|George W. Williams
On one side is the slave-ship, and on the other is the Mayflower.
Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume XI (of 20)|Charles Sumner
Most Africans are, even five generations removed from the slave-ship that brought their forefathers from the Dark Continent.
Dearest|Henry Beam Piper

British Dictionary definitions for slave ship

slave ship

noun

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

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