Forcing captives to dance
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Title
Forcing captives to dance
Collection
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1800 (Approximate)
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Slavery
Subjects
Slavery -- United States
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Slave trade -- United States
Punishment
Torture
Dance
Genres
Notes
Content: Lest We Forget #376
Languages
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16104370
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3a11ce30-c6f6-012f-1988-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Forcing captives to dance" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1800. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a11ce30-c6f6-012f-1988-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1800). Forcing captives to dance Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a11ce30-c6f6-012f-1988-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Forcing captives to dance" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a11ce30-c6f6-012f-1988-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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