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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.

"Door of No Return" memorial at The House of Slaves, Gorée, Senegal, image taken 2004.

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

The Slave Ship, Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming, painting by J.M.W. Turner, 1840, courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Map of Americas by Covens and Mortier, 1739

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"To the Friends of Negro Emancipation", engraving, 1833 courtesy of the © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK.

African Passages, online exhibition developed with the College of Charleston and UNESCO TST Sites of Memory Education Project, developed early 2000s.

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