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Louisiana, mid-18th century: For the two English slave traders Florence Eggin and Godfrey Harding, a business trip ends in French captivity. What the two slave traders knew from their business practice, they now experienced in their own bodies: they were measured, their age, appearance and physical characteristics recorded. An abrupt change of perspective from slave trader to captive, from subject to object, which strikingly illustrates how the perception and significance of physical features such as skin color changed over time – and could change suddenly from one moment to the next.