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

Captive Passage
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TO BE SOLD on board the ship Bance Island, 1780s
Africans were sold individually or in lots soon after they landed in the Americas. This notice states that a number of the captives were immune to smallpox--a claim aimed at increasing their value.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

TO BE SOLD on board the ship Bance Island

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