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Map depicting major trans-Atlantic slave trading regions in Africa, 2011.

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Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade, ca. 1790-91, courtesy of the Lilly Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana University.

Manikongo (leaders of Kongo) receiving Portugeuse, ca. pre-1840.

The Slave Trade, painting by Francois Auguste Biard, 1840, courtesy of the Wilberforce House Museum.

Fight between two privateering vessels, the French Confiance and the HMS Kent, painting by Ambroise-Louis Garneray, ca. 1783–1857.

Elimina Castle, or St. George Castle, Gold Coast (present day Ghana), Atlas Blaeu van der Hem, 1665-1668.

Map of West Africa, created by Johann Baptist Homann, 1743.

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Mossi horsemen, by J.W. Buel, 1890.

Manillas from Nigeria, commonly used as currency in West Africa during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, particularly by European traders on the coast purchasing enslaved people from African traders.

"Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July 1839," engraving and frontispiece from John Warner Barber, A History of the Amistad Captives, 1840.

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