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Manuring, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson OpieManuring, 1826. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)
Filling and Heading Casks, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson OpieFilling and Heading Casks, 1826. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)
Boiling and Cooling the Sugar, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson OpieBoiling and Cooling the Sugar, 1826. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar, by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)
Cutting Sugar Cane, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson OpieCutting Sugar Cane, 1826. A slave is shown with a hoe or scythe used to cut the sugar cane behind him. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)
William Wilberforce, philanthropist, evangelical Christian and anti-slavery campaigner, 1821William Wilberforce, English philanthropist, evangelical Christian and anti-slavery campaigner, 1821. Entering Parliament in 1780
A Turkish Lady Going with her Slave to the Bath, ca 1760. Artist: Smith, Francis (active 1763-1780)A Turkish Lady Going with her Slave to the Bath, ca 1760. From a private collection
Detail of an Egyptian stele showing an overseer, slaves and scribeDetail of a stele showing an overseer, slaves and scribe at the Musee Guico, Bologna, Italy
Pope Gregory I, the Great, 590-604 (c1900). Saint Gregory (c540-604), Pope from 590, seeing Anglo-Saxon children in a slave market in Rome and calling them Angels not Angles
Pope Gregory I, the Great, 590-604 (c1860). Saint Gregory (c540-604), Pope from 590, seeing Anglo-Saxon children in a slave market in Rome and calling them Angels not Angles
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
Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, c1860-62Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA c1860-62
Slave quarters on a plantation in Georgia, USA
Illustration from a poster advertising a theatrical production of Uncle Toms Cabin, 1870. George, defending his wife and child from recapture
Slave Convoy on the March, 1852. A slave caravan in Ethiopia, consisting mainly of women and children. After a drawing by JM Bernatz
A slave convoy, Africa, 19th century. Slaves tied together with slave forks around their necks on their way to slave ships
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
Caesar Imperator!, 1861. ( The American Gladiators ) The American Gladiators are President Lincoln on the left to represent the Northern States
The American Difficulty, 1861. Illustrating the worsening troubles between the North and the South in America. President Abraham Lincoln stokes the fire at the White House
Divorce A Vinculo, 1861. Mrs Carolina, a representative of the slave-owning south of America, holding a cat o nine tails and declaring her right to beat her own property
Caesar et Imperator, 1861. It was reported on the 10th July 1861 in The Times that the Emperor Napoleon puts down the Slave trade carried on on the coast of Africa by French agents under the pretext
Poor Consolation, 1858. A Parisian in chains speaking to a slave: Courage, Mon Ami; Am I not a Man and a Brother? The Portuguese colony of Angola abolished the slave trade during this year