I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
A sloop is a small sailing boat with one mast. a small ship with one central mast (=pole for sails) (sloep)
Two-runner sled to haul logs or bolts out of the woods Similar to a scoot except that the sloop is equipped with a tongue (22)
a vessel with one fore-and-aft rigged mast with a mainsail and a foresail After the eighteenth century, the term also applied to a small vessel with four to twelve cannon on her upper deck, sixth rate, and rigged with up to three masts
The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted
A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail
The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel