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Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

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Diagram of an African slave ship, printed in Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Vol. 2 (London, 1808). The Gilder Lehrman Collection.

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An illustration from Thomas Clarkson’s landmark book about the abolition of the slave trade, this diagram displays kidnapped Africans packed on board a slave ship crossing the Atlantic.

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