The Slave Trade Photo Gallery and related media
The Slave Trade
The Slave Ship, Joseph Mallord William Turner
This painting depicts the deadly Middle Passage, where ships carrying hundreds of slaves crossed the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. With foul conditions and often few provisions, many slaves died and were thrown overboard (1840).
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