barracoon
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish barracón, barraca.
Noun[edit]
barracoon (plural barracoons)
- A temporary cage for holding slaves, indentured servants or prisoners in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa.
- 1863, Richard F. Burton, Wanderings in West Africa, volume II, Dover Publications 1991 edition, page 36:
- Beyond Cape Palmas, the coast line is a beach of bright white sand, from which the slave barracoons have now disappeared […].