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

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

"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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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