slave ship
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- noun
- /sleɪv ʃɪp/
- NSFW
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- Actually, most of the slave ships were British, until after the Revolution, when more were American.
The Brown brothers were not big players in the trade, but they did send two slave ships to Africa.
- The Brown brothers were not big players in the trade, but they did send two slave ships to Africa.
- Death Even so, the boards look like slave ships, like tombstones, like shrouds, like mummies.
- Every act has the potential to upset things a little bit later, when GED has rescued him from the slave ship.
Examples
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People who survived the hulls of slave ships across vast oceans.
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In August, authorities seized the slave ship Echo near Cuba and escorted it to Charleston harbor.
Academic text (2009) -
Why would I know more about what it's like inside a slave ship than anyone else?
Fiction book (1998) -
And I found two slave ships off the coast of South Africa.
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The Brown brothers were not big players in the trade, but they did send two slave ships to Africa.
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I was rescued off a slave ship by the British Navy.
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Describing the conditions aboard a slave ship, for example, Emmer writes: "The slaves were packed closely together."
Academic text (2004) -
His maternal grandmother, who came to Martinique on a slave ship, also exposed him to voodoo beliefs and rituals.
Blog text (17) -
The harsh realities of this crossroads are depicted in an 1840 work by Joseph Mallord William Turner showing the slave ship.
Academic text (2015) -
The ancestors of most African Americans arrived in the United States aboard slave ships.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ship used to transport enslaved people' is directly and compositionally derived from 'slave' (enslaved person) + 'ship' (vessel), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common cross‑linguistically (e.g., 'prison ship', 'cargo ship'), making the expression predictable and transparent.
Etymology
The compound slave ship named a ship that carried slaves, people taken from their homes, across the Atlantic to be sold and forced to work. Because these ships were used to move people who were 'treated as property', slave ship now means those ships and their role in that cruel trade.