ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BARRACOON
From Spanish barracón, from barraca hut, from Catalan.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BARRACOON»
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barracoon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
barracoon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer
The gap was bridged by two books of collected nonfiction, The Overcrowded
Barracoon and The Return of Eva Peron. The Overcrowded Barracoon draws
together essays dating from 1958 to 1972. The first section, "An Unlikely Colonial,
" ...
The deponent further saith, that hearing said individual, who appeared to be the
acting master or director of the barracoon, exclaim ' que lastima,' or ' what a pity it
was,' he inquired the reason of this expression of regret, when the master or ...
Richard Robert Madden, 1849
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Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul
One of his first significant South Africans to whom we have already been
introduced, Ahmed Cajee Khan of The Overcrowded Barracoon, expresses the
author's profound irritation at the antiapartheid movement. This early instance
comes in ...
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Church of England Record for the Diocese of Melbourne
Before the entire cargo was taken on board the second mate and myself deserted
from the ship and went to a slave factory, or barracoon, as it is generally called,
eight miles south of Cape Pardon ; we here represented that the cause of ...
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The African Repository ...
When infants are born in the barracoon, or when they are brought there with their
mothers—because it is inconvenient to keep them in the factory, an almost
impossible to carry them across the ocean—they are subjected to a premature
and ...
7
The African Repository and Colonial Journal
When infants are born in the barracoon, or when they are brought there with their
mothers — because it is inconvenient to keep them in the factory, and almost
impossible to carry them across the ocean — they are subjected to a premature ...
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General Report of the Emigration Commissioners
They may still come, if they choose, or Manna may come alone, and see the two
British subjects whom he sold, and who were kept in irons as ' slaves in the
barracoon of Dombocorro; and when Manna has seen these men, and heard
what I ...
Great Britain. Emigration Commission, 1846
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The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
I have known disease to make dreadful havoc in these places, more especially in
the year 1831, when the small-pox carried off 200 in one barracoon. Great
numbers are carried off annually by diarrhoea and other diseases.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1840
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Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914
Clarke's description of the "barracoon" or slave-hold on the prison ship bearing
Dawes to Tasmania suggests that an entire Dickensian slumload of criminals and
social riffraff is being exported to the Antipodes. The barracoon contains a ...
Patrick Brantlinger, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BARRACOON»
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barracoon is used in the context of the following news items.
The cycle of birth, death and rebirth
The moth rips open the silken walls of its bastille, the eel its barracoon (a place for contemporary confinement) of mud. Opening the operculum ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
Five Historic Sites with Fresh Perspectives on Interpreting Slavery …
Ryan's Mart -- named after Thomas Ryan, the alderman who built the mart -- had a "barracoon" or slave jail and an open air shed where the ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
2015 Polls: Fayose's Recklessness Is Fast Approaching That Of A …
... the Ekiti Election Rigging Tape) as the one, within the ruling party's crowded barracoon of desperate power-mongers, whose recklessness is ... «Osun Defender, Mar 15»
Dominica, the hidden jewel of the Caribbean
... port of dilapidated wooden buildings and colonial leftovers, which include the Caribbean's last-standing barracoon used for holding slaves. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
Elephant vs. Dragon: The Political and Economic Prospects of India …
I think this quotation by V.S. Naipaul in The Overcrowded Barracoon neatly encapsulates this whole discussion: “I detected in him a certain ... «ValueWalk, Jun 14»
Redemption of Africa
Former slave owners who endured the shackles of disgrace, victims of the barracoon, now free and wealthy, also became slave owners. «THISDAY Live, May 14»
How secret were Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures?
That summer in Maine, when the Hovings were visiting the Wyeths, Andy gave Betsy “Barracoon” as a birthday present. It's a nude of a black ... «Washington Post, Apr 14»
Sampan, cruise ship …no stormy seas, I hope
... though it is surprising that amid all this talk of cruise ships and sampans, no one has compared Singapore to an overcrowded barracoon. «The Independent Singapore News, Oct 13»
Howard Dodson Jr. has returned to work, trying to make Howard …
... of Harlem Renaissance-era philosopher and critic Alain Locke (including the unpublished manuscripts of Zora Neale Hurston's “Barracoon”), ... «Washington Post, May 13»
Let there be ... less light pollution
In this terrestrial barracoon it's a blessed privilege to be friends with the stars, capable of plumbing the celestial matrix and saying: Wow. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan 12»
