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transatlantic slave trade

transatlantic slave trade

Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic...

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Brooks

Brooks

Detail of a British broadside depicting the ship Brooks and the manner in which more...

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Joseph Cinqué

Joseph Cinqué

Portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of the revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad;...

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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slavery: Antigua

slavery: Antigua

Enslaved people cut sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua in 1823.

The British Library (Public Domain)

slave ship Brooks

slave ship Brooks

Slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean were notorious for their overcrowded, unsanitary...

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Joseph Cinqué

Joseph Cinqué

A portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of the Amistad rebellion, appears on a printed...

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Slavery Abolition Act

Slavery Abolition Act

Enslaved people on a West Indian plantation are freed following the passage of the...

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transatlantic slave trade

transatlantic slave trade

Slave traders transfer captives to a ship along the western coast of Africa. The...

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Middle Passage: shackles

Middle Passage: shackles

Slave traders use shackles to restrain captured Africans on ships crossing the Atlantic...

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. (object no. 2008.10.4)

Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano.

The British Library (Public Domain)

Portuguese slave ship

Portuguese slave ship

The Portuguese slave ship Diligente, which was engaged in the illegal slave...

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. (object no. 2010.21.2ab)

Thirteenth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment

The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) to the Constitution of the United States formally...

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