During the slave trade, slaves were packed into every available niche aboard the slave ships, including the officers' cabins. The officers slept on deck in semi-cylindrical boxes, nicknamed dog houses. The term in the dog house grew to describe being in a difficult situation due to the extreme discomfort of sleeping in these boxes.

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If I had known, really, what a Rastaman was, I would have thought this was no place for a Rastaman.

… I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre.