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The signature of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, one of the few remaining pieces of evidence from his life.

The first autobiography printed by an African in Britain and the first known slave narrative, this text recounts the life of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw beginning with his capture and sale into slavery.

The diaries of the prominent Jamaican sugar planter Thomas Thistlewood offer a gruesome look into the commonplace physical and sexual violence of slavery that perpetuated the objectification and oppression of enslaved bodies.

The ledgers of a prominent British slave trader Cranfield Becher that demonstrate the cold, dehumanizing economic language of the slave trade.

A picture of the Door of No Return on Goree Island, in a memorial to slaves who were forcibly held in the prison on Goree Island before being taken across the Atlantic.

A letter published inHonestus Mercator in July 1740 that argued against the continuation of the slave trade in the British Empire.

A newspaper article in theCaledonian Mercurydescribing recent petitions that have gone before Parliament in defense of the British slave trade.

Recreations of the bilboes recovered from the shipwrecked slave shipHenrietta Marie. These and shackles like them were used to hold slaves' ankles in place while on the voyage across the Atlantic.

Slave chain (with 3 neck-rings or shackles) made of iron. The chain was manufactured in Europe but discovered in 1937 in Kumase, Ghana.

A set of wooden slave shackles used by Umbundu captors in Central Africa (modern-day Angola).