barracoons

The "barracoons," where were stored the live merchandise of the Dark Potentate, were about five miles inland, to be safe from cruiser's fire or any casual observation.

'Little Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States 1897

Pity and compassion had been generated in the subterranean barracoons of the slaves and were no more than the agony and sweat of the crowded miserables and weaklings.

Chapter 39 2010

He parked two massive floating slave barracoons in Kingston Harbour where refugees picked up in Jamaican waters were, with the craven connivance of the Patterson government, denied asylum, captured and processed and 22 per cent of them selected for the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp while the rest were returned to their murderers in Haiti.

Haiti's Great White Hope? 2009

It was, therefore, perfectly legal for a backer to finance a slaving expedition, for an owner to outfit it, a captain to prepare a slave deck and store manacles, to sail to the very barracoons in which the slaves were held, and to carry and off-load whiskey, rum, and other trade goods for their purchase; it only became a slaving enterprise when the slaves were boarded.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

Poor Chinese were either recruited or kidnapped by coolie agents, kept under guard in barracoons, loaded aboard ships, and delivered mainly to Cuba as cheap labor.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

It was, therefore, perfectly legal for a backer to finance a slaving expedition, for an owner to outfit it, a captain to prepare a slave deck and store manacles, to sail to the very barracoons in which the slaves were held, and to carry and off-load whiskey, rum, and other trade goods for their purchase; it only became a slaving enterprise when the slaves were boarded.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

Once delivered to the traders on the river or the coast, they were confined in crude “barracoons,” or slave barracks, until inspected, sold, and loaded aboard ship.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

Once delivered to the traders on the river or the coast, they were confined in crude “barracoons,” or slave barracks, until inspected, sold, and loaded aboard ship.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

Mothers of children thanked such gods as they knew how to thank, and slaves shut up in barracoons, waiting for their voyage, got signal that something had happened which was to give them freedom.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

The Africans, he stated, were confined in barracoons and loaded aboard the Erie in bondage and under moral restraint and fear—their wills controlled by a superior power exercised over their minds and bodies….

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007