Cargo of Ninety-Four Negroes: Charleston 1769 Slave Ship

Horrifying historical document from Charleston, South Carolina, dated July 24th, 1769, advertising the sale of "A CARGO OF NINETY-FOUR PRIME, HEALTHY NEGROES" who had just arrived on the slave ship Dembia from Sierra Leone. The poster lists the human cargo as "Thirty-nine Men, Fifteen Boys, Twenty-four Women, and Sixteen Girls" to be sold by slave traders David & John Deas. This chilling advertisement documents the transatlantic slave trade at its height, when African people were kidnapped from their homeland, survived the horrific Middle Passage across the Atlantic, and were sold as "cargo" in American ports. The use of the word "cargo" and the categorization by age and gender reveals the complete dehumanization of the slave trade. The decorative border frames this horror with casual elegance, showing how normalized human trafficking had become in colonial America. A devastating document of the Middle Passage and America's original sin, available in three sizes with your choice of black or silver aluminum frame.