slave ship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of slave ship
First recorded in 1790–1800
Example Sentences
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They were among the divers who’ve explored the Clotilda, a slave ship whose mostly intact hull that rests on the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
They called their initiative the Amistad Project, a reference to an 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship of that name.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
Illness was the slave ship captains’ constant fear.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Ignatius Sancho, the author of “Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho,” is believed to have been born on a slave ship en route to the West Indies in 1729.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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