Images of the slave trade:

Slaveship (Craig, 540)

Loading plan for the main decks of the 320-ton slave ship Brookes. The Brookes was only 25' wide and 100' long, but as many as 609 slaves were crammed on board for the nightmarish passage to the Americas. The average space allowed each person was only about 78" by 16". [Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilder Foundations.]

slavecaravan (Thomas, #48)

Slaves were transported to the port or market in long marches lasting for weeks, as graphically described by Mungo Park (c. 1790)

slavebranding (Thomas, #49)

Branding a slave with the initials of the buyer (c. 1820)