Human Rights Collection (page 5)

The suffragette housemaid, 1908. Artist: Central News
The suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on Londons Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragettes, 1908. Artist
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragettes, 1908. Emmeline Pethick Lawrence (1867-1954) and Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

The welcome to the victims of masculine tyranny, 1908. Artist: Central News
The welcome to the victims of masculine tyranny, 1908. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience

Janet M Cole and Hazel Philip campaigning for Votes for Women, Chicago, USA, 1905
Mrs Janet M Cole and Miss Hazel Philip campaigning for Votes for Women, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1905. Women finally secured the right to vote throughout the United States in 1920 with the passing of

Glendale Land Leaguers Memorial, Skye, Highland, Scotland. This memorial in the village of Glendale commemorates five imprisoned crofters known as the Glendale Martyrs

Slaves harvesting sugar cane in Louisiana, 1833. Note the serrated sickle being used. From Scenes of American Wealth and Industry. (Boston, 1833). (Colorised black and white print)

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragettes, in prison dress, 1908. Emmeline Pankhurst (1857-1918) and her daughter Christabel (1880-1958)

Slave labour on a cotton plantation in the southern states of America, 1860. Putting cotton bolls through a whipping press before putting the cotton through a saw gin

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

John Lilburne on the pillory at Westminster, 1638 (1905). Lilburne (1614-1657) was an English Leveller who campaigned for what he described as `freeborn rights` which every human being was born with

Slavery emancipation festival in Barbados, c1880

The Freed Slave, statue in Memorial Hall, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, USA, c1876
The Freed Slave, statue in Memorial Hall, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, c1876. The exhibition was held to commemorate the centenary of the American Declaration of

The slave trade in Africa: a gang on the march, c1875

Ex-slaves parading with liberation manifestos, American Civil War, 1861-1865 (1951). A print from 100 Years in Pictures, A panorama of History in the Making, text by DC Somervell

Freedom of the press: title page from the Areopagitica by John Milton, 1644 (1956). The Areopagitica was a speech delivered by Milton in the House of Commons in favour of the liberty of unlicensed

Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette, and her daughter Christabel, early 20th century (1956). Emmeline Pankhurst (1857-1918) and her daughter Christabel (1880-1958)

Lady Astor, American-born British politician, 1926. Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (1879-1964) was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Plymouth in 1919

A page from the journal of John Newton, 1750-1754 (1965). John Newton (1725-1807) was a slave trader from 1750-1754, but he later became a priest and abolitionist

Scene from slave life, 1965. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965

The selling and branding of slaves before being put aboard a ship, 1965. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965

Chained and yoked slaves on the march to the trading station, 1965. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965

Slavery accounts, 1698-1701 (1965). Accounts of the number of negroes delivered to the islands of Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua for the years 1698-1701

A remonstration of the subject of the slave trade, 1789 (1965). A remonstration from the Council and Assembly of Jamaica to the House of Commons on the subject of the slave trade

Aerial view of Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York, USA, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow

Frances Mary Buss (1827-1894), English pioneer of womens education, 1926. Buss founded the North London Collegiate School in 1850 and remained its principal all her life

Lady Astor (1879-1964), American-born British politician, 1926. Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Plymouth in 1919

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954), British suffragette, early 20th century
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954), British suffragette, 20th century

Civis Romanus sum, 1852. Artist: John Leech
Civis Romanus sum, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

The departure of Roger Williams (1603-1683) for Salem Island, c1902. Roger Williams was an English theologian and an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans

John Locke, English philosopher, (c1850). Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as the father of British empiricism. He was the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

John Locke, English philosopher, (1836). Artist: James Posselwhite
John Locke, English philosopher, (1836). Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as the father of British empiricism. He was the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

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

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

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1974. Solzhenitsyns (1918-2008) novels were instrumental in raising global awareness of the Soviet system of forced labour camps, the Gulag

John Locke, English philosopher, (1825). Artist:s Freeman
John Locke, English philosopher, (1825). Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as the father of British empiricism. He was the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

The Old Plantation, 1800. Plantation slaves dancing in front of their wooden cabins accompanied by banjo and drum. From the collection of the Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, USA

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

John Locke, English philosopher, c1713 Artist: George Vertue
John Locke, English philosopher, c1680-1704. Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as the father of British empiricism. He was the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

John Locke, English philosopher, c1680-1704. Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
John Locke, English philosopher, c1680-1704. Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as the father of British empiricism. He was the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

John Locke, English philosopher, 1689. Artist: Verelst Harman
John Locke, English philosopher, 1689. Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as the father of British empiricism. He was the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Slaves working on a tobacco plantation, 1833. In the foreground tobacco is baled and barrelled ready to be taken off the plantation. In the background are the cabins in which the slaves lived

Slaves cultivating sugar cane in the West Indies, 1852. From The Wonders of Home by Grandfather Grey. (London, 1852)

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

The building of Mexico City, 16th century. Native slaves building Mexico City on the ruins of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan under the direction of Spanish conquistadors

Emmeline Pankhurst arrested by Superintendent Rolfe outside Buckingham Palace, London, May 1914. Mrs Pankhurst (1857-1928) was trying to present a petition to the king

Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette, early 20th century. Born in Manchester from a Radical political background, Emmeline Goulden (1857-1928) married Dr Richard Pankhurst, the Red Doctor

Male, female and child captives driven into slavery by Arab slave traders, c1875. The men are fastened together with slave forks. From The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, c1875

The Gortyn Law Code, 5th century BC
The Gortyn Doric Law Code on Crete, in Boustrophelon script. The Gortyn Doric Law code was an inscription on a wall in Crete which laid out the laws of that area

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