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Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic...
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Detail of a British broadside depicting the ship Brooks and the manner in which more...
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Portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of the revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad;...
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Enslaved people cut sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua in 1823.
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Slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean were notorious for their overcrowded, unsanitary...
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A portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of the Amistad rebellion, appears on a printed...
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Enslaved people on a West Indian plantation are freed following the passage of the...
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Slave traders transfer captives to a ship along the western coast of Africa. The...
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Slave traders use shackles to restrain captured Africans on ships crossing the Atlantic...
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Olaudah Equiano.
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The Portuguese slave ship Diligente, which was engaged in the illegal slave...
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The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) to the Constitution of the United States formally...