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The Transatlantic Slave Trade

A diagram of the slaveholding capacity of the slave ship Vigilante.

A diagram of the slaveholding capacity of the slave ship Vigilante.

Citation Information: “Interior of Slave ship, Vigilante,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/83ab8119168ea5cb94af50edade40c3f.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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A diagram of the slaveholding capacity of the slave ship Vigilante.

An illustration of a scene in the hold of the "blood-stained Gloria" during the Middle Passage.

An illustration of chained African slaves in the cargo hold of a slave ship measuring three feet and three inches high.

An 1851 lithograph called Insurrection on Board a Slave Ship.

An advertisement for a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina.

A 1797 advertisement for the sale of a female slave in New York.

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