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slave ship
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slave ship
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(Historical Terms) a ship used to transport slaves, esp formerly from Africa to the New World
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Noun1.slave ship - a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondageslave ship - a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight


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But it is the "mouth" of a river from which slave ships departed for hundreds of years.
There are representations of the items which the slave ships also carried to use for barter - tobacco, spices, mirrors and cloth.
The atrocious conditions under which slaves went through in the slave ships cannot even be put into words.
 
 
 
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