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The Stono Rebellion (1739) Marker, photograph by Emily Pigott, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2015.

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The South Carolina State Arsenal, photograph by Frederick Wesner, Charleston, South Carolina, 1940, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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

The Slave Trade (Slaves on the West Coast of Africa) by François Auguste Biard, oil on canvas, circa 1833, courtesy of BBC Paintings. Initially, captives in the trans-Atlantic slave trade came from coastal port areas of West and Central Africa. As demands for more enslaved labor increased in the Americas, the slave trade in Africa expanded, and more captives originated from deeper in the interior.

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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.

The Slave Ship, painting by J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner, 1775-1851, courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company.

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The slave deck of the 'Wildfire" ship brought into Key West on April 30, 1860, illustration,Harper's Weekly, June 2, 1860, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

African men crowded onto a lower deck; African women crowded on an upper deck.

The Siege of Charleston, 1863, courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society.

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The Seizure of the Planter Marker, photograph by Emily Pigott, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2015.

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The Sabbath Among Slaves, by Thomas W. Strong, 1849, courtesy of the Library of Pennsylvania.

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