Meaning of barracoon | Babel Free

Definitions

A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.

Examples

“Beyond Cape Palmas, the coast line is a beach of bright white sand, from which the slave barracoons have now disappeared […].”

“He was now a prisoner, and—thrust into a suffocating barracoon, herded with the foulest of mankind, with all imaginable depths of blasphemy and indecency sounded hourly in his sight and hearing—he lost his self-respect, and became what the jailers took him to be […].”

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