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Sloop [1799], excavated in Ashley River
Image courtesy of Drayton Hall

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

Slaves unloading rice barges at a South Carolinian rice plantation, J. G. Holland Scribner's Monthly, An Illustrated Magazine for the People, 1874, courtesy of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.

Slaves of the rebel General Thomas F. Drayton, photograph by Henry Moore, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, wood engraving, Illustrated London News, 1856, courtesy of the British Museum, London.

Slaves exposed for sale, date unknown, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Slaves being transported in Africa, engraving from Lehrbuch der Weltgeschichte oder Die Geschichte der Menschheit, a book by William Rednbacher, 1890.

Slaver “Zeldina” at Port Royal

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Slave traders in Gorée, Senegal, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, ca. eighteenth century.

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Slave Schedule, United States Census Bureau, Charleston, South Carolina, 1860, courtesy of Ancestry.

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