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[[File:Barconegrero.jpg |thumb |upright |A wood engraving after a daguerreotype of slaves on the captured slave-ship, ''Wildfire'', brought to Key West in 1860 from [[Harper's Weekly]] that was included in Black Cargoes and a New York Times review.]]
Another illustration in ''Black Cargoes'' (and reprinted in a New York Times review of the book) was taken from a [[Harper's Weekly]] magazine article, a wood engraving after a daguerreotype of slaves on the captured slave-ship, ''Wildfire'' brought to Key West in 1860, well after the slave trade was [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves|prohibited in the United States]] in 1808. The legend in the book uses the phrase, "walking skeletons covered over with a piece of tanned leather"
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