Sentences with phrase «deck of a slave ship»

Pencil drawings of people like sardines on the lower deck of a slave ship.

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He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.»