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

Captive Passage
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Slave Deck of the Albatroz, 1845
On patrol for ships engaged in the illegal slave trade, Meynell painted this image of the lower deck of the captured slave ship Albatroz off the African coast.
Lt. Francis Meynell, Royal Navy, artist
Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England

Slave Deck of the Albatroz

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