"Transport of negroes to the colonies" (caption translation). This image shows close-up of top deck of slaver with Africans and European sailors. A barrier on the deck separates African men and women. This unidentified ship left from an unidentified place in West Africa.

Color lithograph by Pretexat Oursel, 1800s. Original held in Musée d'Histoire de la Ville et du Pays Malouin, Saint Malo, France. Published in the exhibition catalog Les Anneaux de la Memoire: Nantes-Europe-Afriques-Ameriques, Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France, Dec. 1992-Feb. 1994.

Oursel, Pretexat

French

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E009

Africa

"Transport des négres dans les colonies", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed August 5, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/3000