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Description	English: Slaves being thrown overboard from an unidentified slave ship
Date	7 January 1832
Source	Handler, J. S. (2006). "Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery: Three case studies". Slavery & Abolition 27: 55. DOI:10.1080/01440390500499943.
Author	Unknown, originally published in The Liberator

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2008-12-18 16:14 Jasper33 250×225× (38244 bytes) Slaves being thrown overboard from the ship ''Zong'' - see the [[Zong Massacre]]. == Licensing == {{PD-US}} Original source: http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=19007

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current	20:54, 7 June 2021		845 × 763 (460 KB)	Nizolan	Better version with verifiable source
	01:41, 27 October 2012		250 × 225 (37 KB)	File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)	Transfered from en.wikipedia by User:Fredlyfish4 using CommonsHelper