"barracoon" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Spanish barracón, barraca.",
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          "ref": "1863, Richard F. Burton, Wanderings in West Africa, Dover Publications 1991 edition, volume II, page 36:",
          "text": "Beyond Cape Palmas, the coast line is a beach of bright white sand, from which the slave barracoons have now disappeared […].",
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          "text": "He was now a prisoner, and—thrust into a suffocating barracoon, herded with the foulest of mankind, with all imaginable depths of blasphemy and indecency sounded hourly in his sight and hearing—he lost his self-respect, and became what the jailers took him to be […].",
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        "A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners."
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