Young boys were the favorite cargo of trans-Atlantic slave ship captains.
Young African Boys Captured for Slave Trade Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade
From Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com
Source: Harpers Weekly, 2 June 1860.
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