The slave trade · 1562–1786
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The slave trade on this coast and the people who came out of it: the captives of Bunce Island and the Amistad, the Black Poor, Nova Scotian and Maroon settlers, and the Liberated Africans freed from slave ships.
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Slave Auction Ad 1769
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View of Bunce Island and its fort. After Smith 1746
Original title: Vuë de l'ile et du fort de Bense. Tirée de Smith
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