Figures
2.1Share of transatlantic captives taken from Africa by location of home ports of vessels carrying them
4.1Image of the Liverpool slave ship Brooks according to the “Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Description of a Slave Ship” (London, 1789)
4.2The Marie-Séraphique (ID 30941) showing the barricado midships
4.3The slave deck of the Marie-Séraphique (ID 30941) during the transatlantic voyage as drawn by one of the ship’s officers
4.5Albanez (ID 3483). Detained in 1845 with 600 captives, fewer than half of whom are shown in the image
4.6Image of the Diligente (ID 2588), showing approximately half the number of captives on board at the time of detention
5.1Slave-trading compound at Loango, north of the Congo estuary, 1771
6.1References to “slaves” in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers by decade distributed according to whether the slaves were European (“White”) or African (“Black”)
7.4Catherine Zimmerman Mulgrave, seated third from the left. Photograph, 1873
7.5Samuel Ajayi Crowther (center) visiting the “Wilberforce Oak” (Keston, Kent) in 1873, along with leading members of the Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone and Nigeria
7.6Headstones of a prominent Liberated African in Freetown, Sierra Leone
7.7Liberated Africans in St. Helena fifty years on from their arrival on the Aventureiro (ID 4031) in 1850
7.10Survivor of the Clotilde (ID 36990): Oluale (Charlie Lewis) disembarked at Twelvemile Island, Alabama, in 1860; photographed in 1900
7.11Survivors of the Clotilde (ID 36990): Abache (Clara Turner) and Kossola (Cudjo Lewis) disembarked at Twelvemile Island, Alabama, in 1860
7.12Survivor of the Clotilde (ID 36990): Pollee Allen disembarked at Twelvemile Island, Alabama, in 1860; shown in c. 1912
7.13Survivor of the Clotilde (ID 36990): Kossola (Cudjo Lewis) disembarked at Twelvemile Island, Alabama, in 1860; shown at home c. 1927