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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Tobacco Plantation, 1821
Slaves provided much of the labor for the early tobacco industry in North America. In the center of this engraving, the scallop, shell, cask, and fouled anchor symbolize the ties between Chesapeake plantations and merchant shipping.
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Tobacco Plantation

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