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Slave Trade


Ottobah Cugoano

Story date: 1787

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Zamba Zembola

Story date: 1847

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Other Narratives

The Slave-Ship Brookes (1788)

Story date: 1788

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The Middle Passage

The Slave Barque Wildfire

The Bark Bogota

The Bark William

The Last Slave Ships

The US Navy and the Slave Trade

Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, Lieutenant Commanding,

United States Steamer Mohawk

Fabius Maximus Stanly

John Newland Maffitt

Locating the African Cemetery at Higgs Beach

The African Cemetery Burials

Revolt on the Slave Ships

Roger Brooke Taney to Caleb Cushing

Florida's Negro Fort

Andrew Jackson's Slave

Capture of Slaves

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Inspection and Sale of a Captive

Africans Being Sent into Bondage