The Portuguese slaver Diligenté captured by H. M Sloop Pearl with 600 slaves on board, taken in charge to Nassau.
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| Caption | A watercolour painting of a slave ship showing five crew members with multiple enslaved persons crowded on the weather deck. A Portuguese flag flies from the ship and the sketched outline of another ship is visible in the background. Date: 1830s. Record ID: nmaahc_2010.21.2ab. |
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| Creator | unknown |
| Artwork medium | watercolor on paper (fiber product) |
| Credit | Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
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| YSH006233 | 3,000 x 2,021 pixels | 360 |
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