barracoons
/ˌbɛrəˈkunz/
noun
- Enclosures or buildings used to temporarily hold enslaved people or prisoners, especially in West Africa during the slave trade.
- The captured people were forced into crowded barracoons before being loaded onto ships.
- The museum exhibit included a model of a barracoon to show how enslaved people were held.
- Historians have studied the remains of barracoons along the coast of Ghana.