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How to use barracoons in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word barracoons? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
While they negotiated with the ships, they locked us up in big cages on the shore called barracoons.
These intermediary markets also used by agents of Europeans, who had barracoons in these markets, were fed by slaves from the north.
Conditions for the African slaves during the Middle Passage are worse than theirs in the barracoons.
A signal was made from the vessel, and soon afterwards I saw a long line of slaves coming forth from behind a wood which concealed the barracoons where they had been confined.
Examples from Classical Literature
According to British observers these barracoons were almost always full of newly imported African slaves.
There they were confined to long, crowded huts known as barracoons to wait several weeks or months for the ships to take them away.
His stronghold contained several large holding depots or barracoons for slaves brought from the interior.
However, as Law points out, there was not one but several barracoons in Ouidah.
They beefed up their West African Squadron to intercept slave smugglers, eventually bombarding barracoons or slave forts on the coast.
According to Hawthorne, bonds formed in barracoons and on ships were the foundations upon which Upper Guineans in Maranhao and Para built communities.
Pity and compassion had been generated in the subterranean barracoons of the slaves and were no more than the agony and sweat of the crowded miserables and weaklings.
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