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Loading sugar and molasses for shipping to England from Barbados, ca. 18th century, courtesy of Barbados Museum and Historical Society.

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Depiction of a tobacco wharf in colonial America, detail from 18th century map of the Chesapeake Bay, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Advertisement for "A Prime Gang Of 158 Negroes," by Louis D. DeSaussure, Charleston, South Carolina, 1860, courtesy of Duke University Libraries.

Delegate of the Shawnee negotiating the return of English hostages and peace in October of 1764, illustration of engraving by Charles Grignion, 1766, courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library.

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

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