slave-ships

Ten years before that ignominious episode, he had been magnanimously busy scaring off slave-ships on the African coast.

The Perry Legacy 2008

Slavery in the USA bagan to weaken when the Royal Navy imposed a blockade on slave-ships.

Firedoglake » Labor and Netroots 2006

In 1839, my friend Mr. Gabriel saw 37 slave-ships lying in this harbor, waiting for their cargoes, under the protection of the guns of the forts.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

To compel men to dance and be merry by authority, has rarely succeeded even on board of slave-ships, where it was formerly sometimes attempted by way of inducing the wretched captives to agitate their limbs and restore the circulation, during the few minutes they were permitted to enjoy the fresh air upon deck.

Old Mortality 2004

The only inhabitants are marines, and some negroes liberated from slave-ships, who are paid and victualled by government.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The only inhabitants are marines, and some negroes liberated from slave-ships, who are paid and victualled by government.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Then the next thing I hear about him, he's running down slave-ships just for the sake of freeing the cargo.

The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999

She longed for the sorrowful and the afflicted, -- she would go down to the forgotten and the oppressed, -- and made herself the companion of the Doctor's secret walks and explorings among the poor victims of the slave-ships, and entered with zeal as teacher among his

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

North America, coquetting with philanthropy, and nominally abjuring the principle of slavery, suffered herself to undergo the corruption of the practice for the temptation of the lucre, and the Atlantic was covered with slave-ships.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

This year no less than seventy-six slave-ships have sailed, without reckoning the smugglers in that line.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham