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Artefact 'Slave in chains'

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Middle Passage

This oil painting is by an unidentified British artist and dates between about 1820 and 1850. It shows a young African man, little more than a boy, in a brass neck collar and with manacles around his wrists. The chains from his wrists are only lightly sketched in. The image suggests the youth

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