Barracoon

Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the ❋ Unknown (2003)

Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the "Jinkimba" or circumcised boys, who received us with unearthly yells. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

They were shut up safely in the "barracoon," -- such was the name of the large building -- and to-morrow, that day, or whenever the captain was ready, he would deliver them over. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

"barracoon;" in the palmy days of the trade slave-pens occupied the ground now covered by the chapel, the schoolroom, and the dwelling-house, and extended over the site of the factory to the river-bank. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

The St. Jude Project, Robert Weingart as reformed recidivist, Kermit Abelard as egalitarian poet, Timothy Abelard as the tragic oligarch stricken by a divine hand for defying the natural order, Layton Blanchet as the working-class entrepreneur who amassed millions of dollars through his intelligence and his desire to help small investors, a historic Acadian cottage that hid a barracoon. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

In moments like these, I knew that Louisiana was still a magical place, not terribly different than it was when Jim Bowie and his business partner the pirate Jean Lafitte smuggled slaves illegally into the United States and kept them in a barracoon, somewhere close to the very spot I was standing on. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

And I have seen heads fall like fruit in a slaver's barracoon, And I have seen winged demons fly all naked in the moon '. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Take these to the barracoon, " Bonnet said to the seaman, pushing Josh in his direction and waving at the Fulani. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

When we came ashore, he told them to take Josh to the barracoon. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

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 his gaolers took him to be — a wild beast to be locked under bolts and bars, lest he should break out and tear them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

After crossing the bar it branches off in a W. and N.W. direction, the latter being the principal arm, up which the boats went some 30 miles, or about 10 beyond the barracoon. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I believe it to have been used as a barracoon for slaves, several large cargoes having been exported from this river. ❋ Unknown (2004)

At South Bay we came upon a grassy clearing larger than usual, near a bright stream; its pottery and charred wood showed the site of the Spanish barracoon destroyed by the British in 1840. ❋ Unknown (2003)