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Barracoon
Barracoon Bar"ra*coon`, n. [Sp. or Pg. barraca. See Barrack.] A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. --Du Chaillu.

Meaning of Barracoons from wikipedia

- imprisoned at barracoons along the coast of West Africa, where they awaited forced transportation across the Atlantic Ocean. A barracoon simplified the...
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a non-fiction work by Zora Neale Hurston. It is based on her interviews in 1927 with Oluale Kossola...
- Look up barracoon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A barracoon is a type of barracks used historically for the temporary confinement of slaves or criminals...
- Spanish slave trader Pedro Blanco. It consisted of several large depots or barracoons for slaves brought from the interior, as well as several palatial buildings...
- sugarcane with dangerous machinery. Enslaved people were forced to reside in barracoons, where they were crammed in and locked in by a padlock at night, getting...
- after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives. Her nonfiction book Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018), about the life of Cudjoe...
- (1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
- published The Last Slave Ship in 2022. In 2018, Zora Neale Hurston's book Barracoon was published, after lacking a publisher since its completion in 1931...
- (1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
- dangerous machinery. On these plantations, slaves were locked into cramped barracoons, referred to by scholars as "sugar prisons", where they got as little...