Sentence examples for slave vessel from inspiring English sources

Rather than exhibit a mock-up of a slave vessel — a feature of an old display on slavery in Liverpool — he commissioned a video to be shown on four screens.

Originally a French slave vessel, the Queen Anne's Revenge was commandeered by Blackbeard and was later run aground on a sandbar off the coast of North Carolina in 1718.

The sailing ships that so many have tried to reach turn out to be slave vessels.

And though the Insurance Company of North America is one of the oldest insurance companies in the country, Ace compared its marine insurance records against those of known slave vessels and did not find that it had written or carried any policies on known slave vessels, Ms. Fleishman-Hicks said.

The monument is a four-story rendition of ancient West African Chi Wara headdresses perched atop a canoe, which represents slave vessels, according to an inscription at the site.

Between 1845 and 1850, the United States Navy captured only 10 slave vessels, while the British captured 423 vessels carrying 27,000 captives.

Frolic was posted to South America and on 6 September 1843 Cumming was cruising off Santos, São Paulo, in command of the ship's pinnace, when he encountered the large brigantine Portuguese slaver Vincedora in company with two other slaving vessels.

Although fitted out as a slave ship, vessels such as the Meermin routinely carried other goods when not transporting slaves.

Set in the 1820s, the novel (an Economist book of the year in 2008) catalogues the adventures of the crew of the Ibis, a slave ship turned able vessel in the opium wars.

First, the Court held that the offense of fitting out a vessel for slave trading could be committed even if the owner of the vessel did not personally fit it out.

Might the sinister great-masted vessels be slave ships?