Explore items from our collection of archival material related to an image that became an epochal symbol of Transatlantic slavery – The Slave Ship.

Presented in partnership with the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center.

Photo Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “Decks of a slave ship.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1859.