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Africans on the slave bark Wildfire
"Africans on Board the Slave Bark Wildfire, April 30, 1860," depicted the condition of 450 Africans found on an illegal slave ship captured by an American steamer and brought to port at Key West. The engraving first appeared in Harper's Weekly, 1860 June 2. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-19607.