Photo by Anthony Batista, Courtesy of D’angelo Thompson

SLAVE SHIP

Brookes.

Clotilda.

Fredensborg.

Henrietta Marie.

La Amistad.

Trouvadore.

Small, medium, large cargo.

Loss rate.

Commodity.

For sale, lash, whip, rape, breed, sale, lash, whip, rape, breed, and sale again.

History.

Documented.

Human-trafficking.

Nothing old, nothing new.

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