A barracoon (a corruption of Portuguese barracão, an augmentative form of the Catalan loanword barraca ('hut') through Spanish barracón[1]) is a type of barracks used historically for the internment of enslaved or criminal human beings.
In the Atlantic slave trade, captured individuals were temporarily transported to and held at barracoons along the coast of West Africa, where they awaited transportation across the Atlantic Ocean. A barracoon simplified the slave trader's job of keeping the prospective slaves alive and in captivity, with the barracks being closely guarded and the captives being fed and allowed exercise.[2][3]
The barracoons varied in size and design, from small enclosures adjacent to the businesses of European traders to larger protected buildings.[4] The amount of time enslaved persons spent inside a barracoon depended their health and the availability of slave ships.[4] Many captive enslaved individuals died in barracoons, some as a consequence of the hardships they experienced on their journeys and some as a result of their exposure to lethal European diseases.[5]
^Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers. 1991. ISBN 0-00-433286-5
^Rodriguez, Junius P. (1997). The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 73.
^Lloyd, Christopher (1968). The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. pp. 29–30.
^ abGomez, Michael Angelo (1998). Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. UNC Press. pp. 155–156.
^White, Deborah (2013). Freedom On My Mind (1 ed.). New York: Bedford/St.Martens. p. 23.
A barracoon (a corruption of Portuguese barracão, an augmentative form of the Catalan loanword barraca ('hut') through Spanish barracón) is a type of...
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)...
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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...
languages which had contributed to the port-language which he referred to as Barracoon. In 1909 two publications reaffirmed and clarified the distinctiveness...
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...
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(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
the word's origin to mean a Black person is that it was derived from barracoon, an enclosure for slaves, which became increasingly used in the years...
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(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
(1975) Easter Sunday (1975; a non-Helga watercolor also bears this title) Barracoon (1976; a non-Helga tempera also bears this title) On Her Knees (1977)...
Spanish slave trader Pedro Blanco. It consisted of several large depots or barracoons for slaves brought from the interior, as well as several palatial buildings...
(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
(1936–38) The Peculiar Institution (1956) The Slave Community (1972) Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018) Fiction/novels Oroonoko (1688)...
about him, but it was not published until 2018, long after her death, as Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo". The appendix lists Sally Smith as...
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