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Copper slave badge imprinted "Charleston No. 261 Fruiterer 1812," Walter Pantovic Artifact Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

Copper slave badge imprinted "Charleston No. 261 Fruiterer 1812." The badge is a contemporary counterfeit--"Fruiterer" is not a known occupation to be printed upon slave badges.

Selection from ledger entries for Wednesday, the 3rd of December through Thursday, the 4th of December, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, Lowcountry Digital Library, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

"Slave Traffic," painting by S. Hutchinson, 1793, courtesy of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

Indigofera suffruticosa, image by Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1897.

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Selection from ledger entries for Saturday, the 23rd of August through Wednesday, the 27th of August, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

“A map of the parish of St. Stephen, in Craven County,” surveyed by Henry Mouzon, South Carolina, 1773, courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society.

Detail from “A map of the parish of St. Stephen, in Craven County,” surveyed by Henry Mouzon, South Carolina, 1773, courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society.

"Picturesque America," Ashley River, Charleston Museum Illustrated Newspapers Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives, Charleston, South Carolina.

Selection from ledger entries for Saturday, the 4th of April 1761, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, Lowcountry Digital Library, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

Selection from ledger entries for Saturday, the 10th of January through Wednesday, the 14th of January 1761, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, Lowcountry Digital Library, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

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