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Slavery and the Making of AmericaPicture of slave women cultivating a village garden in Central Africa, Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library
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There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together. Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents of a Slave Girl, 1861, Chapter 33.



Enslaved Africans aboard an illegal slave ship seized off the coast of Florida, 1865, Harper's Weekly, June 2, 1860. Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College. With permission from The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.



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