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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
An advertisement for a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina.

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

Citation Information
“To be sold, on board the ship Bance Island, ... negroes, just arrived from the Windward & Rice Coast,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/321e721e899b2601b4ed84c7eca583f4.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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  • the author's point of view
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Item 9 of 15 in the Primary Source Set The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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A map of the slave trade in Africa that shows the regions of most intense activity.
An excerpt from a 1788 account describing the capture and kidnapping of Africans as part of the slave trade.
A photograph of Goree Island off the West African coast, where captured slaves were put on ships bound for the Americas.
A photograph of the view from inside the Maison des Esclaves (Slave House) of the “Door of No Return,” Goree Island, Senegal.
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.
An illustration of a woman and child on the auction block.
An engraving for a 1787 medallion designed for British abolitionists.
An 1807 illustration of the “Abolition of the Slave Trade.”
A map of illegal slave-trade routes to the United States used between 1808 and 1860.
Two articles discussing the dismissal of General Mitchell for illegal slave trading in Georgia in 1821.

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