A trade card with printed black type for the domestic slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
By the time slavery ended, over 1 million enslaved people had been forcibly moved in the domestic slave trade across state lines. Hundreds of thousands more were bought and sold within states.
Slave memorial in Zanzibar.
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Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
Revered no more: the statue of Bristol slave-trader Edward Colston is torn down.
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The statue was part of a push in the Victorian era to create mercantile heroes. Colston’s slaving activities were conveniently glossed over.
Digital reconstruction of French slaver L'Aurore.
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