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Exploitation Collection (page 4)

Background imageExploitation Collection: Mammons Rents, 1883

Mammons Rents, 1883. The housing conditions of a poor labouring family, partly caused by high rents. Landlords were making up to 50% on their investments in already condemned properties

Background imageExploitation Collection: Negro slaves washing for diamonds watched over by supervisors with whips, Brazil, 1815

Negro slaves washing for diamonds watched over by supervisors with whips, Brazil, 1815. Brazil was the largest market in the Americas for African slaves

Background imageExploitation Collection: Children carrying loads of clay in the brickyards of the English Midlands, 1871

Children carrying loads of clay in the brickyards of the English Midlands, 1871. It was estimated that at this time there were between 20, 000 and 30

Background imageExploitation Collection: Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, c1860-62

Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, c1860-62
Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA c1860-62

Background imageExploitation Collection: Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer, Southern states of USA

Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer, Southern states of USA
Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer. Southern states of USA, 1860. Wood engraving

Background imageExploitation Collection: Leopold II, King of Belgium, 1865-1909 Artist: Pierre Tossyn

Leopold II, King of Belgium, 1865-1909 Artist: Pierre Tossyn
Leopold II, King of Belgium, 1865-1909. Leopold (1835-1909), King of Belgium from 1865, wears the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece

Background imageExploitation Collection: Slave Convoy on the March, 1852

Slave Convoy on the March, 1852. A slave caravan in Ethiopia, consisting mainly of women and children. After a drawing by JM Bernatz

Background imageExploitation Collection: A slave convoy, Africa, 19th century

A slave convoy, Africa, 19th century. Slaves tied together with slave forks around their necks on their way to slave ships

Background imageExploitation Collection: A slave with an ox-cart containing the weeks cotton pickings, New Orleans, USA

A slave with an ox-cart containing the weeks cotton pickings, New Orleans, USA

Background imageExploitation Collection: Paying West Indian labourers, 1888

Paying West Indian labourers, 1888
Paying West Indian labourers on their arrival at Tabemilla during the de Lesseps attempt to dig the Panama Canal, wood engraving 1888



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