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

Some of that history is on display at one London location of Gagosian Gallery, which this month debuted “Do This in Memory of Us,” Mr. Ehikhamenor’s 30-by-15.5-foot lace and canvas tapestry of a slave ship.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

They were among the divers who’ve explored the Clotilda, a slave ship whose mostly intact hull that rests on the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

On that journey, Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, then the oldest living formerly enslaved man who had been abducted on the Clotilda ship, the last slave ship to the United States.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023

Illness was the slave ship captains’ constant fear.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 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