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Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner
The 1840 painting Slave Ship by English artist J.M.W. Turner, believed to...
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Formerly enslaved writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–March 31, 1797) was enslaved as a child, purchased his freedom...
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division/The New York Public Library Digital Collection (b11759530)
Replica of the Zong
A replica of the Zong on the River Thames in March 2007, the 200th anniversary...
© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images