slave ship

noun

1. a ship for transporting enslaved captives from their native homes to places of bondage.

slave ship

noun

1. a ship used to transport slaves, esp formerly from Africa to the New World

Word History and Origins

Origin of slave ship¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

It’s as though I’m somehow linked to my ancestors who jumped off slave ships to drown rather than give in to a captive existence.

From Outside Online

The visitor can also take a grim 3-D virtual tour of the slave ship L’Aurore, for which a complete set of building plans survives.

From Washington Post

The doctors who served on slave ships, colonial regimes and throughout the empire became the first epidemiologists.

From Time

A dimly lit space that felt more like a claustrophobic ambling in the dark, it echoes what it might have felt like on a slave ship on a brutal journey to an unknown land, stolen from the only home you’d known.

From Vox

This very moment, there is a slave ship discharging her cargo, and the slaves are singing as they go ashore.

From Project Gutenberg

He confesses in that book that later he became a great admirer of Turner, though perhaps never of the "Slave Ship" picture.

From Project Gutenberg

It was in this year, on the 26th of February, that the slave-ship "Desire" landed a cargo of Negroes in the colony.

From Project Gutenberg

On one side is the slave-ship, and on the other is the Mayflower.

From Project Gutenberg

Most Africans are, even five generations removed from the slave-ship that brought their forefathers from the Dark Continent.

From Project Gutenberg