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Definition of Barracoon
1. n. A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
Definition of Barracoon
1. Noun. The temporary cage for slaves and indentured servants in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barracoon
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracoon
Literary usage of Barracoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Andrew Barton Paterson (1899)
"CHAPTER V. THE barracoon. IN the prison of the 'tween decks reigned a darkness
pregnant with murmurs. The sentry at the entrance to the hatchway was ..."
2. Cuba with pen and pencil by Samuel Hazard (1873)
"... and what it is — The people on it — The buildings — The grinding-mill — Purging-
house —Drying-house —Packing sugar—The barracoon — The mayoral — The ..."
3. Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood (1865)
"... fold—No recovering spilt water—Coming out of mourning—No half mourning amons
savages—The feast of release—The slave barracoon—A thousand skeletons—The ..."
4. The Jamaica Movement: For Promoting the Enforcement of the Slave-trade by David Turnbull (1850)
"There they are, in breathless haste, on the nearest road from the seat of Government
to the barracoon, which may possibly be situated, for the sake of more ..."
5. The Island of Cuba: Its Resources, Progress, and Prospects, Considered in by Richard Robert Madden (1853)
"The deponent further saith, that hearing said individual, who appeared to be the
acting master or director of the barracoon, exclaim 'que lastima,' or 'what ..."
6. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1844)
"In less than ten days after this tragedy, another attempt was made to esc'ape
from the barracoon; and two others underwent the same penalty. ..."
7. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"a sufficient force for the purpose, took military possession of a barracoon filled
with chained negroes, and on November 23, having, in the meantime, ..."
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