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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.

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

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

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Slaves working on a tobacco plantation in seventeenth century Virginia, 1670.

Sugarcane, by Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1897.

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Depiction of a slave insurrection in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana) on August 18, 1823, created by Joshua Bryant, 1823, courtesy of John Carter Brown Library.

Omne Bonum, created by James le Palmer, London, England, ca. 1360-1375, courtesy of the British Library.

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