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Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' is a satirical essay where Swift suggests, with chilling seriousness, that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to the rich. Swift used extreme irony and…

This is a passage describing how a disfigurement can alter the price of a slave. In this case, a missing eye lowers the value of a male slave.

This passage describes the separation of slave families during the auction.

This passage describes "spectators" and prospective buyers examining slaves.

African American men, women, and children being auctioned off in front of crowd of men.

This illustration shows a slave dealer making a deal with customers.

This account shows the medical beliefs in Morocco surrounding leprosy, particularly in the enslaved Moor population.

Derelict tanks lie strewn about a chaotic battlefield at Clapham Junction, Ypres, Belgium, ca. 1918.

This resource is a political cartoon that shows the reversed rolls of the slave and master, showcasing the brutality of the slave master.

Stylized text of the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and freed slaves in the Confederacy.