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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.

Limestone carving of captives being presented to a Mayan ruler, Usumacinta River Valley, Mexico, ca. 785 A.D., courtesy of Kimbell Art Museum.

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Slave traders in Gorée, Senegal, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, ca. eighteenth century.

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Omne Bonum, created by James le Palmer, London, England, ca. 1360-1375, courtesy of the British Library.

Depiction of a slave insurrection in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana) on August 18, 1823, created by Joshua Bryant, 1823, courtesy of John Carter Brown Library.

Sugarcane, by Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1897.

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Slaves working on a tobacco plantation in seventeenth century Virginia, 1670.

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