Photographs

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Wikimedia commons

The grave of an enslaved Igbo Archibald Monteith (1800-1864), in the Carmel Moravian church. Photo credit; Wikimedia commons.

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Wikimedia commons

An enslaved Igbo person Olaudah Equiano taken to Barbados after being kidnapped from his hometown near the Bight of Biafra. Photo credit; Wikimedia commons.

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Britannica

Bight of Biafra. Photo credit: Britannica.

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DorisKendris Gallery on Twitter.

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Untitled photograph — thumbnail

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Untitled photograph — download (16)

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Untitled photograph — download (15)

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Untitled photograph — HD7bcjbWsAA9gGr

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Untitled photograph — download (14)

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Untitled photo shot in southeastern Nigeria, Edward Chadwick, 1920s—30s.

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Mystical spirits like this giant, segmented specimen usually perform during astral traditional burial ceremonies of great men in most Northern Igbo areas. Meki Nzewi; Some Social Perspectives of Igbo Traditional Theatre (1978)

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Photo credit-Apams

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Masquerade in Igbo land. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons.

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Thrillist.com

Moko Jumbie at st. Croix festival. Photo credit: Thrillist.com

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black culture archives

Jonkonnu masquerade dancers in Jamaica, 1975. Photo credit: black culture archives.

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Wikipedia commons

Ijele Masquerade in Igbo land. Photo credit: Wikipedia commons.

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Cover of an 1883 edition of Thomas Maybe Reid’s the maroon: A tale of Obeah and Voodoo. Photo credit; Wikimedia commons.

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Two imprisoned Obeah practitioners in Antigua, part of a group photographed in 1905. Photo credit; Wikimedia commons.

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Illustration of a figurine confiscated from Alexander Ellis, an accused Obeahman in Morant Bay, 1887. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons.

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Yaw’s Brief

Areas near the Bight of Biafra: Nri and Aro. Photo credit: Yaw’s Brief.

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Yaw’s Brief

Roughly 1.5 million enslaved people were shipped from the area between 1650 and 1850. Photo credit: Yaw’s Brief.

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The chain of the Bight of Biafra slave trade; how individuals from the interior were funneled towards the European ship on the coast. Photo credit: Yaw’s Brief.

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Untitled photograph — slave_trade_1650-1860_b-www.slaveryinamerica.org_3

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Untitled photograph — captives-African-ships-Slave-Coast-slave-trade-1880

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