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Slave tokens, Musee du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France

Housing tokens with initials ABF for Aime Benjamin Fleuriau, pewter, 1743-87, used by his slaves as identification when off plantation, in the Musee du Nouveau Monde, or New World Museum, opened 1982 in the Hotel Fleuriau, an 18th century mansion home to merchant Aime-Benjamin Fleuriau, 1707-1877, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The museum explores links between France and the Americas, including the slave trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Housing tokens with initials ABF for Aime Benjamin Fleuriau, pewter, 1743-87, used by his slaves as identification when off plantation, in the Musee du Nouveau Monde, or New World Museum, opened 1982 in the Hotel Fleuriau, an 18th century mansion home to merchant Aime-Benjamin Fleuriau, 1707-1877, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The museum explores links between France and the Americas, including the slave trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen