The Spanish merchant schooner 'L'Antonio' is portrayed in the Bonny river in Nigeria waiting to take captured Africans on board. Other slavers are depicted in the background. The tranquil atmosphere of this print, with the slavers pictured in still, glassy waters, belies the disturbing nature of the trade with which these vessels are associated. In the foreground, a ship's boat is conveying captured Africans to the waiting ship. They are being subdued by a crew member wielding a whip.