Anti Slavery Collection (page 5)

The huge green fragment of ice pitched and creaked, 1929. A scene from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. Stowes anti-slavery novel was first published in 1852

Dancing before the glass in great style, 1929. A scene from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. Stowes anti-slavery novel was first published in 1852

Now for the cake, said Mas r George, 1929. A scene from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. Stowes anti-slavery novel was first published in 1852

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), American diplomat, abolitionist and writer, 1875. Son of a slave, a mulatto, he fled from slavery at 21. (Colorised black and white print)

Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist, c1900. Harriet Tubman (c1820-1913) was born into slavery in America. She escaped in 1849

Capture of the Spanish slave vessel Dolores by HM brig Ferret, 4 April 1816, 1816. Artist: William John Huggins
Capture of the Spanish slave vessel Dolores by HM brig Ferret, Captain James Stirling, 4 April 1816, 1816. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1925]

Bartholome de las Casas, (16th century), 1920s
Bartolome de Las Casas, (born August 1474, Sevilla, died July 17, 1566, Madrid), early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary in the Americas

Antonio Gonzalez de Mendoza, (1828-1906), 1920s
Antonio Gonzalez de Mendoza; born in Havana in 1828; organized an association against trafficking in 1865; he was mayor of the capital in 1879; released his 300 slaves

Jose Antonio Cortina, (1852-1884), 1920s
Jose Antonio Cortina, eloquent speaker, notable lawyer and fervent abolitionist, born in Guanajanapo in 1852. He was one of the main chiefs of the Divided Autonomist party

Miguel Figueroa, (1851-1893), 1920s
Miguel Figueroa. Famous and influential speaker of Cuba, traveled to Spain and Italy; joined the Autonomist Party; was a member of the Courts (Cortes) and in a memorable speech in Congress in 1886

Rafael Maria de Labra, (1840-1918), 1920s
Rafael Maria de Labra, Spanish politician, (Havana, 1841-Madrid, 1918). Supporter of the abolition of slavery, he was elected President of theSpanish abolitionist society (1869)

Segismundo Moret, (1833-1913), 1920s
Segismundo Moret was born in Cadiz in 1838; he was appointed Overseas Minister in 1870 and set up the Moret Act of July 4 1870 abolishing slavery; in 1897 signed the decree granting autonomy to Cuba

Daniel Sickles, (1819-1914), 1920s
General Daniel Sickles, born in New York in 1825, became a general during the war of secession (American Civil War), and was appointed ambassador to The United States in Madrid in 1869

Francisco Sanchez Beetancourt, (1827-1894), 1920s
Francisco Sanchez Betancourt, born in Camaguey, in 1827. He belonged to the Assembly of representatives of the Center in 1869, which decreed the abolition of slavery and requested annexation

Francisco Vicente Aquilera, (1821-1877), 1920s
Francisco Vicente Aquilera, was born in 1821 in the city of Bayame. He travelled to Europe and America. In August 1867 he founded the first revolutionary committee in Bayamo

Domingo Dulce, (1808-1869), 1920s
General Domingo Dulce. Born in 1808, served as Captain General of Cuba (1862-1866) having been one of the best rulers of the country. Opposed the trafficking, and supporter of the reforms

Francisco Serrano, (1810-1885), 1920s
General Francisco Serrano was born in Cadiz in 1810 and was the Captain General of Cuba from 1859 to 1862, distinguished for his liberal ideas

Baron de Humboldt, (1769-1859), 1920s
Born in Prusia in 1769, Baron de Humboldt arrived in Havana in January 1801 and went back in April 1804. In 1826 he published a political essay of the Cuban island in Paris

Francisco Arango, (1765-1837), 1920s
Born in Havana in 1765. He became a lawyer and representative of Havana in the city council of Spain, with a decree for the freedom of traffic of black people

Victor Schoelcher, French anti-slavery campaigner, 1880. Schoelcher (1804-1893) campaigned tirelessly in the 1830s and 1840s for the abolition of slavery in Frances colonies

Charles Lavigerie, French clergyman, 1869. Lavigerie (1825-1892) was appointed Archbishop of Algiers in 1866, and was later made primate for the whole of equatorial Africa by Pope Pius IX

John Jay, American statesman, from a print published in 1783, (c1880). Artist: Whymper
John Jay, American statesman, from a print published in 1783, (c1880). One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Jay (1745-1829) was President of the Continental Congress from 1778-1779

Capture of John Brown in the engine house, c1880
Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States

John Brown, American abolitionist, (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States

John C Fremont, American soldier, explorer and presidential candidate, (c1880). Fremont (1813-1890) undertook several surveying expeditions to the West in the 1830s and 1840s

The emancipation of slaves on a West Indian plantation, early 19th century (c1895). From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume VII (c1895)

John Burns (1858-1943), English trade unionist, anti-racist, socialist and politician, 1893. Artist: W&D Downey
John Burns (1858-1943), English trade unionist, anti-racist, socialist and politician, 1893. Burns was particularly associated with London politics

Exeter Hall. The great Anti-Slavery Meeting, 1841, c1841. Artist: Henry Melville
Exeter Hall. The great Anti-Slavery Meeting, 1841, c1841. From London Interiors with their Costumes & Ceremonies from Drawings made by permission of the Public Offices

William Henry Seward (1801-1872), American politician. Seward was US Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, 1862-1867. He was a prominent opponent of slavery

Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor, politician and reformer, (c1880). Greeley (1811-1872) was editor of the New York Tribune, the most influential American newspaper from the 1840s and 1870s

John Brown (1807-1859) after his capture, 1859. Artist: Thomas Hovenden
John Brown (1807-1859) after his capture, 1859. Brown was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery

John C Fremont, American soldier, explorer, and Presidential candidate, 1862-1867. Fremont (1813-1890) undertook several surveying expeditions to the West in the 1830s and 1840s

William Henry Seward, US Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, 1862-1867. Seward (1801-1872) was a prominent opponent of slavery

Thomas Clarkson, English politician and anti-slavery campaigner, 19th century. Artist: J Cochran
Thomas Clarkson, English politician and anti-slavery campaigner, 19th century. Clarkson (1760-1846) was a prominent campaigner for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, 19th century. Artist: Currier and Ives
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, 19th century. Lincoln (1809-1865) joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later

Charles James Fox, 18th-19th century British Whig politician, c1905. Fox (1749-1806) was Britains first Foreign Secretary

William Wilberforce, English anti-slavery campaigner, 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
William Wilberforce, English philanthropist, evangelical Christian and anti-slavery campaigner, 19th century. Entering Parliament in 1780

President Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 1862-1867. Artist: JC McRae
President Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 1862-1867. The 16th president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

William Wilberforce, philanthropist, evangelical Christian and anti-slavery campaigner, 1821
William Wilberforce, English philanthropist, evangelical Christian and anti-slavery campaigner, 1821. Entering Parliament in 1780

Fugitive slaves fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the Underground Railroad, 1850-1851. The Underground Railroad was a secret organisation set up in the northern United States in defiance of

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, c1870. The site of a slave rebellion led by John Brown. It ended in an engine house to the left of the track leading down to the ferry on 18 October 1859

Scene from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin, c1870. The death of Eva from tuberculosis. Tom and Topsy with the family at Evas bedside while the rest of the slaves in the courtyard pray for

Death of Uncle Tom, c1870
Death of Uncle Tom, beaten to death by the sadistic slave owner, Simon Legree. Eva looks down from Heaven, waiting for Tom to join her

Cardinal Lavigerie, Founder of the Anti-Slavery Society, 1891. Cardinal Lavigerie (1825-92) and some of his band of White Fathers who dedicated their lives to the cause of abolition of slave trade in

Illustration from a poster advertising a theatrical production of Uncle Toms Cabin, 1870. George, defending his wife and child from recapture

Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, 1865. With Speke and Grant, Baker helped to establish the location of the sources of the Nile

Florence Baker, wife of English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner Samuel White Baker, 1870
Florence Baker, wife of English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), 1870. Born in Hungary, Florence Baker accompanied her husband on his African expeditions

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