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A True Relation of the Unjust Proceedings Against the English Excerpt
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Early Modern Dutch and English Propaganda

The Amboyna trial was a famous conspiracy case that took place in 1623 when a group of Japanese mercenaries were accused of plotting with English merchants to seize control of a Dutch fort on a remote island in Southeast Asia.

Signatures of Japanese soldiers executed at Amboyna
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Japanese Mercenaries in Early Modern Southeast Asia

The Amboyna trial was a famous conspiracy case that took place in 1623 when a group of Japanese mercenaries were accused of plotting with English merchants to seize control of a Dutch fort on a remote island in Southeast Asia.

Hakluytus Posthumus excerpt
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Rivalry Between English and Dutch East India Companies

The Amboyna trial was a famous conspiracy case that took place in 1623 when a group of Japanese mercenaries were accused of plotting with English merchants to seize control of a Dutch fort on a remote island in Southeast Asia.

Deposition of Jan Joosten
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire

The Amboyna trial was a famous conspiracy case that took place in 1623 when a group of Japanese mercenaries were accused of plotting with English merchants to seize control of a Dutch fort on a remote island in Southeast Asia.

Declaration by the bailiff of Batavia
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Torture in the Early Modern Dutch Empire

The Amboyna trial was a famous conspiracy case that took place in 1623 when a group of Japanese mercenaries were accused of plotting with English merchants to seize control of a Dutch fort on a remote island in Southeast Asia.

Title page for Adventure in New Zealand
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Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844

E. J. Wakefield was 19 years of age when he sailed from England, in 1839, on the New Zealand Company vessel, Tory, as secretary to his uncle, Colonel William Wakefield.

Title page of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

In 1753, 15 year old Mary Jemison was captured by Indians along the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years' War between the French, English, and Indian peoples of North America.

Title page from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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Excerpts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

One of the very first slave narratives, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), served as a prototype for the well-known slave autobiographies of the 19th century written by such fugitive slaves as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs.

Title page for The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, an estimated 20 million Africans crossed the Atlantic to the Americas in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Title page of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, an estimated 20 million Africans crossed the Atlantic to the Americas in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.