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Map of Western Europe, 1700, courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.

Shipwrights from Francisco de Orellana's expedition building a small brigantine, the "San Pedro."

"Inspection and Sale of a Negro," wood engraving by Brantz Mayer, 1854, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Germaniae antiquae libri tres,drawing byPhilipp Clüver, 1616, courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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Harbor scene depicting Portuguese ships preparing to depart from Lisbon, engraving by Theodore de Bry, 1593, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Saint Francis Solanus with a native of Tucuman in present day Argentina in the sixteenth century, ca. 1810. Courtesy of Museo Nacional de Peru, Lima. Solanus (1549-1610) was a Spanish missionary to South America who worked to baptize American Indians throughout Paraguay and Tucuman.

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Europe Supported By Africa and America, engraving by William Blake, illustration from John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America, 1796.

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Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolomé de las Casas in Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima, drawing by Theodor de Bry, 16th century, courtesy of the Newberry Research Library.

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Portrait of an African Man, painting by Jan Mostaert, ca. 1525-1520, courtesy of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Cowry shells, 2005. Cowry shells were often used as currency in different African slave trades.

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