Sentences with phrase «passengers of a slave ship»

The work's source — a horrific episode in the history of the slave trade, in which an infection caused the passengers of a slave ship to suddenly go blind — is obliquely referenced with a view of the ocean and a tiny eye standing in for a button on a coat.

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Mermaid Guest House's name is derived from the Dutch slave ship Meermin which suffered from a mutiny by its slave passengers and eventually ran aground off the coast of Struisbaai in 1766.
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