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  • WHITE SLAVE TRADE -- mortality on board a white Guineaman from Ireland --

    Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

  • Virginia, the pirates took a fine French Guineaman bound to Martinico; this ship they armed with forty guns, named her the _Queen Ann's Revenge_, and Blackbeard went aboard as captain.

    The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

  • Roberts stood away to the southward, and met with a Dutch Guineaman, which he made prize of, but, after having plundered her, the skipper had his ship again.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • Guineaman, bound to Martinico, which, by Hornygold's consent, Teach went aboard of as captain, and took a cruise in her.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • We had not been long at sea before we spoke an Irish Guineaman from

    Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

  • The people who had captured us, as I afterwards found out, were part of the crew of an English Guineaman, who had murdered the master and mate, and had taken possession of the vessel.

    The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Guineaman, I had already made up my mind to believe; and that she had some fifty hands of a crew, I also considered likely; but that her captain should have resorted to such a perilous measure, perilous to themselves as well as to us, as arming the captive slaves, was quite unexpected, and not a little alarming, as it evinced his determination to make the most desperate resistance.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

  • I went on deck, and there was the Guineaman about two miles to windward, evidently cleared for action, with her decks crowded with men, bowling along steadily under her single -- reefed topsails.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

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