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slave ship

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slave ship
n
(Historical Terms) a ship used to transport slaves, esp formerly from Africa to the New World
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Noun1.slave shipslave 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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A Boston newspaper reporter went and took a look at the Slave Ship floundering about in that fierce conflagration of reds and yellows, and said it reminded him of a tortoise-shell cat having a fit in a platter of tomatoes.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother's side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
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