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Sixteenth-century woodcut showing a medieval merchant ship at a dock, with figures loading goods and townspeople gathered nearby, from Petroveh's Trostspeigel, published Augsburg 1539.
Colored engraving of the slave ship Brooks shows tightly packed rows of enslaved people lying side by side on two decks, illustrating overcrowded conditions during the Middle Passage.
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J. Bruce Ismay
British businessman
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István, Count Széchenyi
Hungarian political reformer and writer
The “Millionaire's Captain”
Edward J. Smith
British captain
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Henry Miller Shreve
American river captain and engineer
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Daniel Keith Ludwig
American entrepreneur
Plimsoll, Samuel
Samuel Plimsoll
British politician and social reformer
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Axel Ludvig Brostrom
Swedish ship owner