Sentences with phrase «quarters of slave ships»

That film is being screened outdoors on the museum grounds in a shack put together by Mr. van Lieshout from packing cases, with an interior meant to suggest the rude quarters of slave ships exporting their cargo to the civilized world.

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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.»

In this intriguing introduction to historical archaeology, Greene spotlights five sites of recent investigation: the Jamestown Fort, the sunken seventeenth - century ship La Belle, the slave quarters at Jefferson's Monticello, the Montana battlefield of Little Bighorn, and the Five Points neighborhood in New York City, a notorious slum in the mid-1800s.