Diagram of a slave ship with its cargo of

Diagram of a slave ship with its cargo of African men and women, captured on the River Bonney (Nigeria), April 15, 1822. It was one of six French and Spanish ships captured by British navy enforcing the ban on slave trade within the British Empire. The men and women on these ships were released to freedom at the British colony of Sierra Leone. Engraving by John Hawksworth

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