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Is ‘planking’ connected to the slave trade?

“To plank” was not necessarily a verb used by slave ship merchants and captains, Rediker said in an e-mail. But the planks “of the lower deck are precisely where millions of Africans were forced to lie and sleep on the Middle Passage, in conditions of utter horror that defy description,” he said. The Brookes print of a slave ship. Rediker points to the “Brookes” image of a slave ship,...

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