This engraving, entitled An African man being inspected for sale into slavery while a white man talks with African slave traders, appeared in the detailed account of a former slave ship captain, Theodore Canot - Captain Canot: Twenty Years of an African Slaver, edited by Brantz Mayer and published in New York in 1854.
Inspection of an African Slave
Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade
Source: "Captain Canot: Twenty Years of an African Slaver" by Brantz Mayer (ed.), New York 1854
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