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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A View of New Orleans Taken from the Plantation of Marginy, 1803
The years 1717-1721 saw the importation of several thousand African slaves to Louisiana. The death rate among the Africans was high: diseases such as scurvy, dysentery, and respiratory and intestinal flu claimed about half of them within a few years of their arrival. Boquela de Woieseri, artist
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A View of New Orleans Taken from the Plantation of Marginy

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