| 单词 | slave pen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave pen c. As a modifier designating places where enslaved people live or in which they are kept, sold, or transported, as in slave camp, slave house, slave hut, slave pen, slave pit, slave quarter, slave ship, etc. ΘΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > places inhabited by slaves slave quarter1837 slave quarter1837 slave pen1845 slave pen1845 slave pit1931 slave pit1931 slave house1939 slave house1939 slave camp1953 slave camp1953 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > involved in slave trade Guinea-man1695 slave-ship1796 slave-ship1796 slaver1830 Guinea ship1855 slave-trader1874 blackbirder1880 picaroon1896 1796 H. M. Williams Lett. France IV. vii. 177 The faithful historian of a slave-ship would perhaps admit, that there are horrors beyond the drowning scenes of Carrier, or the guillotines of Robespierre. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. ii. i. 49 The slave-quarter is large. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 135 The great slave-mart at Delos. 1890 G. A. Henty With Lee in Virginia 76 A warrant to search your slave-huts..for a runaway negro. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis i. iv. 35 A score of miserable human beings waiting to be sold at auction. Mr. Lynch's slave pen had been disgorged that morning. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 440/3 Characteristic..are the winding entrance gangways, a feature..in the..‘slave pits’. 1943 H. T. Kane Bayous of Louisiana iii. 256 A barn and a few slave houses are all that can be found today of the former grandeur of the Durands, among the trees. 1973 R. Dougall In & out of Box xi. 127 The great bulk of the work was carried out manually by wretched, scarecrow figures dressed in rags... They were gangs from the notorious Stalin slave camps in the Arctic. 1999 K. A. Appiah & H. L. Gates Africana 1870/2 Slave vessels sailed from Europe with large crews, including surgeons, carpenters, coopers (barrel-workers), cooks.., sailors.., and others hired to guard slaves on the African coast and on the Middle Passage. 2018 R. Eddo-Lodge Why I'm no longer talking to White People about Race (rev. ed.) i. 4 The vast slave ships that transported African people across the Atlantic were severely cramped. < as lemmas |
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