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  • Tags: Slavery

Tit bits in the West Indies

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Three cartoons illustrating the lustful desires planters had toward black women, during slavery, in the West Indies.

Bartering on the Niger

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Enslaved men and women waiting to be auctioned. Soldiers are keeping guard.

A distressing parting between parent and child

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Coloured print showing a mother being separated from her child after a slave auction.

A negro hung alive by the ribs to a gallows

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A photographic print of a live negro hanging from a gallows by a rope tied around his ribs. Human skeletal remains are on the ground below him.