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"Tobacco Production, Virginia."

A colonial Virginia planter and his clerk oversee the packing of tobacco leaves by enslaved Africans.

Source: Published by Richard Holmes Laurie, 1821 (from the original line engraving, 1759)—Accessed on Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora.

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