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'A Slave-Ship', 1826. Africans in the cramped hold of a ship taking them into slavery in the West Indies or America. The poignant verse which accompanies this image says that happy is the man who dies on the voyage as the fate that awaits him is toil and stripes, and lingering death!. From The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826).