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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
has been made
possible in part by:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Bahamas Slave Trading at Vendue House, 1983
Vendue is French for "sold." This building was constructed before 1769 and served as a slave auction site in the 18th century.
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Bahamas Slave Trading at Vendue House

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