A plan of the slaveship Vigilante, showing how and where slaves were held on board. This image is from a pamphlet distributed in 1823.
A 1662 map of the Caribbean Islands, a crucial region in the slave trade. Image from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
A 1686 illustration of Fort Cormantin. Built by the British then taken by the Dutch, it was located in present-day Ghana. Image from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
A page from the register of slaves liberated when the Diligência was captured by British cruisers in 1844. Image from the British National Archives, Foreign Office.
A page from the 1858 daily log of Wanderer. One of the last ships to transport slaves to the U.S., its final destination was Savannah. Image from the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, Emory.
The Zeldina, a slave ship that was blown-off course and captured by the British Navy. Image from the Illustrated London News, June 1857.
Slaves on the Wildfire, which was intercepted by anti-slave cruisers and eventually rerouted to Liberia. Image from Harper’s Weekly, June 2, 1860.
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, also known as Job Ben Solomon. He was sold to English slave traders, to whom he had planned to sell slaves himself. Image from Harper’s Weekly, June 2, 1860.
