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How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
Museum director Ashley Rogers explains how the Whitney Plantation became the only...
Study the history of the African slave trade and its economic effect on western Africa, where coastal states became rich and powerful while savanna states were destabilized as their people were taken captive
Learn about the history of the slave trade in western Africa.
What happened during the Amistad mutiny?
Learn what happened during and after the uprising on the slave ship Amistad.
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transatlantic slave trade
Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic...
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Brooks
Detail of a British broadside depicting the ship Brooks and the manner in which more...
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Joseph Cinqué
Portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of the revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad;...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
transatlantic slave trade
Slave traders transfer captives to a ship along the western coast of Africa. The...
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Middle Passage: shackles
Slave traders use shackles to restrain captured Africans on ships crossing the Atlantic...
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. (object no. 2008.10.4)
Portuguese slave ship
The Portuguese slave ship Diligente, which was engaged in the illegal slave...
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. (object no. 2010.21.2ab)
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) to the Constitution of the United States formally...
NARA
slavery: Antigua
Enslaved people cut sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua in 1823.
The British Library (Public Domain)
slave ship Brooks
Slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean were notorious for their overcrowded, unsanitary...
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Joseph Cinqué
A portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of the Amistad rebellion, appears on a printed...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Slavery Abolition Act
Enslaved people on a West Indian plantation are freed following the passage of the...
George Munday/age fotostock
Interactives
triangular trade
In a system known as the triangular trade, Europeans traded manufactured goods for...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
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