Definition of Barracoon

1. n. A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.

Definition of Barracoon

1. Noun. The temporary cage for slaves and indentured servants in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barracoon

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracoon

barquillite
barra
barra boy
barra boys
barrable
barracan
barracans
barrace
barraces
barrack
barracked
barracker
barrackers
barracking
barracks
barracoon (current term)
barracoons
barracouata
barracouta
barracoutas
barracuda
barracudalike
barracudas
barracudina
barrad
barrads
barrage
barrage balloon
barrage balloons
barrage fire

Literary usage of Barracoon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Andrew Barton Paterson (1899)
"CHAPTER V. THE barracoon. IN the prison of the 'tween decks reigned a darkness pregnant with murmurs. The sentry at the entrance to the hatchway was ..."

2. Cuba with pen and pencil by Samuel Hazard (1873)
"... and what it is — The people on it — The buildings — The grinding-mill — Purging- house —Drying-house —Packing sugar—The barracoon — The mayoral — The ..."

3. Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood (1865)
"... fold—No recovering spilt water—Coming out of mourning—No half mourning amons savages—The feast of release—The slave barracoon—A thousand skeletons—The ..."

4. The Jamaica Movement: For Promoting the Enforcement of the Slave-trade by David Turnbull (1850)
"There they are, in breathless haste, on the nearest road from the seat of Government to the barracoon, which may possibly be situated, for the sake of more ..."

5. The Island of Cuba: Its Resources, Progress, and Prospects, Considered in by Richard Robert Madden (1853)
"The deponent further saith, that hearing said individual, who appeared to be the acting master or director of the barracoon, exclaim 'que lastima,' or 'what ..."

6. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1844)
"In less than ten days after this tragedy, another attempt was made to esc'ape from the barracoon; and two others underwent the same penalty. ..."

7. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"a sufficient force for the purpose, took military possession of a barracoon filled with chained negroes, and on November 23, having, in the meantime, ..."

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