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slave ship
noun
- a ship for transporting enslaved captives from their native homes to places of bondage.
slave ship
noun
- a ship used to transport slaves, esp formerly from Africa to the New World
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slave ship1
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Example Sentences
This very moment, there is a slave ship discharging her cargo, and the slaves are singing as they go ashore.
He confesses in that book that later he became a great admirer of Turner, though perhaps never of the "Slave Ship" picture.
It was in this year, on the 26th of February, that the slave-ship "Desire" landed a cargo of Negroes in the colony.
On one side is the slave-ship, and on the other is the Mayflower.
Most Africans are, even five generations removed from the slave-ship that brought their forefathers from the Dark Continent.
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