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Indigenous Nahuas person from the conquest-era in Central Mexico suffering from smallpox, drawing, fromBook XII of theFlorentine Codex,ca. 1585.

Amerigo Vespucci leads an attack on Amerindians on the island of "Ity" (location uncertain, possibly Bermuda), on his first journey to the New World in 1497, engraving by Theodor de Bry, ca. 1592.

Friar Bartolomé de las Casas converting an Aztec family to Christianity, Miguel Noreña, 1865, courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Arrival of the Englishmen in North Carolina, from Richard Hakluyt, The Discourse Concerning Westerne Planting, ca. 1585.

Indenture contract, signed with an 'X' by Henry Meyer, 1738.

Advertisement for indentured servants in the Virginia Gazette, 1774, courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

"The Burning of Jamestown," painting by Howard Pyle, 1905, courtesy of Canadian Libraries.

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, painting by Felix Parra, 1875, courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.

Portrait of an African Slave Woman, painting by Annibale Carracci, ca. 1580, courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.

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Group of Negroes, As Imported to Be Sold for Slaves, from William Blake engraving in John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a five years' Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, 1796, courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

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