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Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, painting by Felix Parra, 1875, courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.

"The Burning of Jamestown," painting by Howard Pyle, 1905, courtesy of Canadian Libraries.

Advertisement for indentured servants in the Virginia Gazette, 1774, courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Indenture contract, signed with an 'X' by Henry Meyer, 1738.

Arrival of the Englishmen in North Carolina, from Richard Hakluyt, The Discourse Concerning Westerne Planting, ca. 1585.

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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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.

Indigenous Nahuas person from the conquest-era in Central Mexico suffering from smallpox, drawing, fromBook XII of theFlorentine Codex,ca. 1585.

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.

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

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