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Definition of Barracoon

Barracoon
Barracoon Bar"ra*coon`, n. [Sp. or Pg. barraca. See Barrack.] A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. --Du Chaillu.

Meaning of Barracoon from wikipedia

- A barracoon (a corruption of Portuguese barracão, an augmentative form of the Catalan loanword barraca ('hut') through Spanish barracón) is a type of...
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a non-fiction work by Zora Neale Hurston. It is based on her interviews in 1927 with Oluale Kossola...
- Look up barracoon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A barracoon is a type of barracks used historically for the temporary confinement of slaves or criminals...
- his European partners and patrons, he built and maintained a 40-room Barracoon, small rooms in which captured slaves were held prior to being sold to...
- after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives. Her nonfiction book Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", about the life of Cudjoe Lewis (Kossola)...
- been filmed briefly). Based on this material, she wrote a m****cript, Barracoon, which Hemenway described as "a highly dramatic, semifictionalized narrative...
- was unable to get it published. Her book was posthumously published as Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", in an annotated edition in May 2018...
- published The Last Slave Ship in 2022. In 2018, Zora Neale Hurston's book Barracoon was published, after lacking a publisher since its completion in 1931...
- originally consisted of a closed lot with three structures— a four-story barracoon or slave jail, a kitchen, and a morgue or "dead house". In 1859, an auction...
- originally consisted of a closed lot with three structures — a four-story barracoon or slave jail, a kitchen, and a morgue or "dead house." In 1859, an auction...