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On the appointed day, the _barracoon_ or slave-pen is made joyous by the abundant "feed" which signalizes the negro's last hours in his native country.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

The entrance of each slave-pen was commanded by a cannon, while in the centre of the square, I left a vacant space, whereon I have often seen seven hundred slaves, guarded by half a dozen musketeers, singing, drumming and dancing, after their frugal meals.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Suffice it to say, that instead of whipping Isabella, Mrs. Miller transferred her to the negro-speculator, who took her immediately to his slave-pen.

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

His was the same sad story -- that he was an illegitimate son of his master's daughter, in Virginia; was taken to the slave-pen, where, with one hundred and twenty-seven others, he was raised for the market.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

The day wears away, but long before the time of closing the sale the tall young man once more enters the slave-pen.

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

IT was a beautiful Sunday in September, with a cloudless sky, and the rays of the sun parching the already thirsty earth, that Clotelle stood at an upper window in Slater's slave-pen in New Orleans, gasping for

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

I went out some distance, October 3d, to an old camp, where a school was organized in an old slave-pen.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

In the Avery slave-pen there was a dungeon - like room, designed for one standing, with iron staples to which the wrists were locked, and a sort of stocks for the feet, when a stream of cold water was pumped over the nude form of the refractory slave, from ten minutes to an hour or more, according to the offense.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

Here in an old slave-pen, where hundreds and thousands had been cried off to the highest bidder, where the cries of parting mother and child had been heard and unheeded, where the pleadings of husbands and fathers were only answered by the lash, those many tears, sighs, and groans were exchanged for intellectual culture and religious instruction.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

The chiming of the bells seemed to mock the sighs and deep groans of the forty human beings then incarcerated in the slave-pen.

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown