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Historic Photo Print - The Africans of the slave bark Wildfire, 1860 (2) – Vintage Wall Art

Historic Photo Print - The Africans of the slave bark Wildfire, 1860 (2) — historic print
Historic Photo Print - The Africans of the slave bark Wildfire, 1860 (2). Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Historic Photo Print - The Africans of the slave bark Wildfire, 1860 (2) comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Few images from the late 1850s show the human cost of the illegal slave trade as directly as this one, which records Africans from the slave bark Wildfire in 1860. The vessel was intercepted while carrying captives from Africa toward Cuba, and the survivors were taken to Key West, Florida, where the case drew national attention. The United States had outlawed the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, yet the trade continued under other flags, and photographs like this one helped carry that controversy into public debate in the years before the Civil War.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan1,239 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119413

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