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A pensive Alex Haley stands inside the Slave House on Goree Island, Senegal. Captured Africans passed through this holding and transfer point before they were shipped to the New World.
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Ankle shackles were used to immobilize the captives during the transatlantic crossing to servitude in North and South America and the Caribbean.
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Civil War Glass Negative Collection, Library of Congress, LC-B811-2297; Lot 4161-H
The interior view of a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia.
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A slave family stands in the cotton fields of a plantation near Savannah, Georgia, circa 1860s.
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Slave quarters and a wood house are situated on the grounds of an estate in Maryland.
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The slaves of James Hopkinson at work on his plantation in South Carolina in the mid 19th century.
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Broken chains at the feet of Lady Liberty signify freedom to those who sought refuge on our shores -- and serve as a reminder that some of us actually came in chains.
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