全书的核心故事发生在一艘从加尔各答驶往毛里求斯的前贩奴船“伊比斯”号上。

At the book's heart lies the Ibis, a former slave ship, bound from Calcutta to Mauritius.

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那些过去被战争胜利者当作兵员、劳役或者被杀死的囚徒现在被塞进了欧洲人和美国人的贩奴船，这些白人从冈比亚绕到莫桑比克，四处搜寻黑人作为自己的商品。

Prisoners who might earlier have been absorbed into the victor’s army or workforce, or killed, were now fed to European and American ships seeking human cargo, from Gambia round to Mozambique.

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而《贩奴船》则尤其表现了他艺术的成熟。

And the slave ship was especially selling his art.

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