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Columbus before the Queen, painting by Emanuel Luetze, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum, 1843.

Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolomé de las Casas in Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima, engraving by Theodor De Bry, 1598.

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Columbus landing on Hispaniola on 6 December 1492, greeted by Arawaks, engraving by Theodor De Bry, ca. 1594, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Map of Americas where Spanish settled and often attempted to enslave American Indians, engraving by Theodor de Bry, ca. 1594, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas, ca. 16th century, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain.

Map of Portuguese discoveries, exploration, contacts and conquests, 1336 to 1543, created 2009. Arrival dates noted with location; main sea routes to the Indian Ocean in blue; and territories claimed under King John III of Portugal (r. 1521-57) in green.

Lithographic plate showing harvesting of sugarcane on a Trinidad sugar plantation, created by Richard Bridgens, 1836.

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View of the Elmina slave castle on the north-west side, located on the gold coast of Guinea (present day Ghana), Atlas Blaeu van der Hem, ca. 1665-1668.

Moriscos, drawing from Trachtenbuch by Christoph Weiditz, ca. 1530-1540, courtesy of the Germanisches National Museum. Weiditz was a German painter who documented European peasant costumes.

Company E, 4th US Colored Troops at Fort Lincoln, outside of Washington D.C., 17 November 1865, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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