| Sierra Leone today |  |
Gullah region of coastal South Carolina and Georgia |  |
| West African coast in the vicinity of Sierra Leone, from a 19th century map |  |
Sierra Leone River in the vicinity of Bunce Island (upper right), from an 18th century map |  |
| Drawing of "Bense Island," 1726 |  |
Plan of "Bense Island," 1726 |  |
Drawing of Bunce Island, 1749
Credit: The National Archives (UK) |  |
Drawing of "Bance Island," 1805 |  |
| African house in Sierra Leone (18th century) |  |
West African
women
(18th century) |  |
| African slave traders attacking a village |  |
African slave traders marching captives to the sea |  |
| European and African slave traders on the coast of West Africa |  |
Slaves in Sierra Leone, ca. 1803 |  |
| Slave Ship, detail from drawing of Bunce Island, 1749 |  |
Diagram showing how African captives were imprisoned
aboard a slave ship |  |
Richard Oswald, the principal owner of Bunce Island from 1748-1784
Credit: Private Collection (UK) |  |
Henry Laurens, the Charleston slave merchant who sold Priscilla
Credit: National Portrait Gallery
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Portrait of Henry Laurens
Credit: Corcoran Gallery |  |
Advertisement for slaves from the "Hare," South-Carolina
Gazette, June 17, 1756
[Transcript] |  |
Elias Ball II, the planter who purchased Priscilla
Credit: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
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Elias Ball's diary, June 30, 1756
Credit: South Carolina Historical Society
[Transcript]
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| The Ball family's Comingtee Plantation in 1940, where Priscilla lived until her death in 1811. |  |
"The Old Plantation" painting, ca. 1790. Shows leisure activities of slaves in South Carolina during the lifetime of Priscilla
Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum, Colonial Williamsburg. |  |
| Gullahs laboring in a rice plantation (19th century) |  |
Gullah street vendor, Charleston, ca. 1900
Credit: Gibbs Art Gallery, Charleston
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Edward Ball with Carolyn Smalls Goodson (1997)
Photo by William Struhs |  |
Joseph Opala interviewing an African elder living near Bunce Island (1988)
Photo by Vera Viditz-Ward |  |
Joseph Opala at Bunce Island (1988)
Photo by Vera Viditz-Ward
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Ruins on Bunce Island
Photo by Vera Viditz-Ward
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Gullah Homecoming party participating in a libation ceremony at Bunce Island, Sierra Leone (1989)
Photo by Maggie Steber |  |
Gullah Homecoming group examining the ruins of the
slave prison at Bunce Island (1989)
Photo by Maggie Steber |  |
| Thomas P. Martin, father of Thomalind Martin Polite |  |
Mrs. Thomalind Martin Polite and her daughter Faith.
Photo by Rick McKee/charlestonphotographer.com
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| Vernon House, Newport, Rhode Island |  |
Gravestone of William Vernon, Newport, Rhode Island |  |
American Negotiators, Treaty of Paris (1783)
Credit: The Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library |  |
Close-up of Henry Laurens and Benjamin Franklin from the painting by Benjamin West
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