Loading Slaves Aboard Slave Ship, mid-19th cent.


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Image Reference
E018

Source
Henry Howe, Life and Death on the Ocean: A Collection of Extraordinary Adventures in the Form of Personal Narratives (Cincinnati, 1856), facing p. 537. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-15386)

Comments
 Caption, "stowing the cargo of a slaver at night." Engraving done in 1855 to illustrate excerpt from account of Captain Canot