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Titles: Section of Embarkation Canoe
Description: After being kidnapped or sold into slavery, Africans were transported from barracoons to vessels like the Teçora, which carried the Amistad Africans to Cuba. The embarkation canoe pictured here represents the type of vessel used at Lomboko on the Gallinas River
Primary Source Publisher: Illustrated London News
Primary Source Publication Date: 4/14/1849
Subject Keywords: Other Keyword - African Slave Trade
Other Keyword - American Slave Trade
Other Keyword - Barracoon
Other Keyword - Capture
Other Keyword - Senate
Place - Gallinas, Africa
Place - Africa
Vessel - slavers
Place - Africa
Other Keyword - Colonization
Other Keyword - Race
Other Keyword - Slavery



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