Slave Collection (page 8)

Slaves Celebrating Liberation, c1860s. A racist depiction of slaves at the mansion of Robert W Barnwell, Confederate leader. The music on the piano is upside-down, ridiculling their illiteracy

Oxen Hauling Corn, 19th century. Artist: Edwin Forbes
Oxen Hauling Corn, 19th century. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London, 1938)

The Blackmans Lament on how to make Sugar, 1813. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie
The Blackmans Lament on how to make Sugar, 1813. London 1813, Photo D.Bey

Making copra, Solomon Islands, Fiji, 1905

Planting coconuts, Solomon Island, Fiji, 1905

A representation of December, 1757. Artist: Bernard de Montfaucon
A representation of December, 1757. A man, perhaps a slave. A plate from Supplement au livre de L antiquite expliquee et representee en figures, Paris, 1757. Private Collection

Africans bearing gold, c1400 BC. Fragment of painted plaster from the tomb of Sebekhotep, British Museum

Africans bearing gold and other items, c1400 BC. Fragment of painted plaster from the tomb of Sebekhotep, British Museum

Pharaoh Seti, Capture of Slaves, Luxor, Egypt

Egyptian Tomb, Procession of the Crown, Thebes, Egypt

Slaves carrying offerings to Osiris, Sarcophagus of The Lady of Madja, 18th Dynasty. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris

The Mouths Labour, c1592-1635. Artist: Jacques Callot
The Mouths Labour, c1592-1635

Nubian Slaves, 1832-1840. From Monumenti deli Egitto e delia Nubia, by Ippolito Rosellini, Florence, 1832-1840

Manner of Sleeping in the Forest, 1813. Artist: John Gabriel Stedman
Manner of Sleeping in the Forest, 1813. From Narrative, of a Five Years Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the West Coast of South Africa, volume II, by J G Stedman

Representation of a Tent Boat, or Plantation Barge, 1813. From Narrative, of a Five Years Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the West Coast of South Africa, volume II

Manuring, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie
Manuring, 1826. From The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826)

Filling and Heading Casks, 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie
Filling 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 Opie
Boiling 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 Opie
Cutting 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)

Hercules and Omphale, 1606. Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Hercules and Omphale, 1606. From the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France

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

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725. Cane is cut and taken to vertical crushing mill powered by oxen

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

Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Indigo tinctoria is cut, tied in bundles, steeped in water and fermented in the centre tank

Two sugar mills, West Indies, 1764. A mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (top) and one with vertical rollers powered by an overshot waterwheel (bottom) West Indies

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Artist: Lester
Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Negro slaves washing for alluvial gold watched over by a slave master brandishing a whip

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

Roman Silver Pepper-Pot in the form of a Negro slave, c2nd-3rd century. The Chaourse Treasure is a hoard of Roman silver found in Chaourse, a village near Montcornet

Detail of an ivory horn showing slaves in chains
Detail of an ivory elephant horn showing slaves in chains from West Africa

Pope Gregory in Rome seeing blonde slaves, 19th century. Artist: James William Edmund Doyle
Ilustration of Pope Gregory (c. 540 -12 March 604) in Rome seeing blonde slaves and describing them as Angels, not Angles, from a Chronicle of England by James Doyle, printed by Edmund Evans

Illustration of Joseph being sold by his brothers, 14th century
Ilustration of Joseph being sold by his brothers to the merchants, from the Golden Haggadah, a medieval Jewish manuscript from Spain, from the British Museums collection, 14th century

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

Frieze of Roman soldiers with Barbarian captives from a Roman sarcophagus

Turkish Pasha and Odalisque, late 18th or early 19th century Artist: Jean-Baptiste Hilair
Turkish Pasha and Odalisque, late 18th or early 19th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Greek gravestone of an athlete holding a strygil and a boy slave with oil. In the National Museum in Athens

Egyptian glazed relief of a black slave from a Temple of Rameses III at Tel el Jahudiye

Egyptian glazed relief of a Hittite slave from a Temple of Rameses III at Tel el Jahudiye

Egyptian glazed relief of a Phoenician slave from a Temple of Rameses III at Tel el Jahudiye

Egyptian glazed relief of a Nubian slave from a Temple of Rameses III at Tel el Jahudiye

Detail of an Egyptian stele showing an overseer, slaves and scribe
Detail of a stele showing an overseer, slaves and scribe at the Musee Guico, Bologna, Italy

Roman mosaic of a slave boy in a kitchen
Roman mosaic of a slave boy, possibly named Junius, in a kitchen, from Pompeii

Statuette of a slave kneeling
Bronze Roman statuette of a black slave kneeling, from the Louvres collection

Greek terracota vessel of an actor
Greek terracota vessel of a comedic actor portraying a slave sitting on an altar. Probably made in a Greek city in South Italy

Ivory panel of a lioness devouring a boy, Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, Phoenician
Inlaid ivory panel of a lioness devouring a boy, palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Iraq, Phoenician, 9th-8th century BC

Dark Artillery; or, How to Make the Contrabands Useful, American Civil War, 1861. Contrabands were Negro slaves who had escaped or been brought across Union (northern) lines

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

Servants or slaves making preparations for a feast, mosaic, Carthage, 2nd century. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris

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