Barracoon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A barracks in which slaves or convicts were formerly held in temporary confinement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The temporary cage for slaves and indentured servants in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A barrack or an inclosure containing sheds in which negro slaves were temporarily detained; a slave-pen or slave-depot.
  • Word Usage
    "Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the"
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