slave-vessel

Our boats were painted like fishing boats, and our men disguised as fishermen, as usual; so, apparently occupied with our pretended business, we gradually approached the slave-vessel.

Sketches From My Life Pasha, Hobart 1887

This made me believe (and I wasn't far out) that the slave-vessel I was looking out for was bringing recruits to the already numerous slaves employed on the said plantation.

Sketches From My Life Pasha, Hobart 1887

Every slave-vessel was inspected by a customs-officer.

History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870

Poor fellow! all the reward he got, beyond the intense admiration of those who saw him, was a bad attack of small-pox from the diseased _animals_ (there is no other name for negroes in the state they were in) on board the slave-vessel, which somewhat injured the face of one of the handsomest men I ever saw.

Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden 1854

This made me believe (and I wasn't far out) that the slave-vessel I was looking out for was bringing recruits to the already numerous slaves employed on the said plantation.

Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden 1854

Our boats were painted like fishing boats, and our men disguised as fishermen, as usual; so, apparently occupied with our pretended business, we gradually approached the slave-vessel.

Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden 1854

It will not have escaped the reader's notice, that the foregoing journal of our cruise records not the capture of a single slave-vessel, either by our own ship or any other belonging to the American squadron.

Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849

It was afterwards discovered that the fellows, who were all of them belonging to the slaver's crew, took on shore a very considerable number of doubloons, which form in general the most valuable portion of a prize, unless she has her cargo of slaves on board; the slave-vessel herself and her stores rarely sell for much.

Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

We, at all events, were better off than the slaves in the hold of a slave-vessel, for they have not room to stretch their legs, or to rest their weary backs.

Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

In these barracoons the slaves, when purchased, are imprisoned, till shipped on board a slave-vessel.

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847