Slave Collection (page 9)

Sugar factory and plantation in the West Indies, 1686. Artist: Allain Manesson Mallet
Sugar factory and plantation in the West Indies, 1686. Cane is crushed in a horse or mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (centre left)

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

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

Slaves building a wall watched by a taskmaster, Roman. Fragment of a wall painting

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

Spartacus and Hermann in the Arena, late 19th century. Spartacus (c109 BC-71 BC), Roman gladiator, victorious in the arena, surrounded by the bodies of fallen adversaries

Corn Husking; Negro labourers husking maize, southern USA, c1850
Corn Husking ; Negro labourers husking maize, southern USA, c1850

Various stages in the production of tobacco, Virginia, USA, 1750. Male, female and child slaves rolling dried tobacco into ropes (background) and sorting leaves and pressing tobacco (foreground)

Scene on an American tobacco plantation, 1725. Male, female and child slaves rolling dried tobacco into ropes. On the right is a tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)

Cultivating and curing tobacco in West Indies using slave labour, 1686

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

The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743-1744. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743-1744. One of the most important commissions carried out by Tiepolo in the 1740s was, without a doubt, the decoration of the Palazzo Labia in Venice

Greek terracotta vessel of a comic actor, 2nd century BC
Greek terracotta vessel of a comic actor, wearing a mask impersonating a runaway slave sitting on an altar, from a Greek city in south Italy. From the British Museums collection, 2nd century BC

American War of Independence, 1770, (1883)
Boston Massacre, 5 March 1770, (1883). Skirmish between British troops and crowd in Boston Massachusetts. Five protesters killed, the first being Crispus Attucks, a black sailor and former slave

Slave quarters on a plantation in Georgia, USA

Egyptian Painting of Captives on Feet of Mummy of a Pharaoh

Greek Relief of Young man holding Strygil with Boy holding Oil Vessel, c400 BC. Oil for massage after Athletic activity is cleaned off with strygil, Athens

Mortuary Temple of Rameses III at Medianat Habu, Luxor, Egypt, 12th Century BC. The Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of

Roman relief of a Roman warship, manned by soldiers. Slaves would have been pulling the oars

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

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

Scene from The Tempest by William Shakespeare, 1856-1858. Caliban, the savage, deformed, sub-human creature enslaved by Prospero, collecting wood (Act II Sc II)

The Flag of Freedom, 1875. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Flag of Freedom, 1875. An escaped slave clings to Britains flagpole as John Bull argues the toss with the First Lord of the Admiralty, G Ward Hunt

The Jamaica Question, 1865. Artist: John Tenniel
The Jamaica Question, 1865. The white planter asks Am not I a Man and Brother, Too, Mr. Stiggins? Punch shows a sullen black worker being led away from his plantation by a sanctimonious Baptist

Britannia Sympathises with Columbia, 1865. Artist: John Tenniel
Britannia Sympathises with Columbia, 1865. Only days after the long and bitter Civil War in America had finally come to an end

Scene From The American Tempest, 1863. Caliban (Sambo) says: You Beat Him Nough, Massa! Berry LittleTime, I ll Beat Him Too. - Shakespeare

Not Up to Time, 1862. Or, Interference would be very Welcome. By this time, both sides in the American Civil War were struggling for men and money

One Good Turn Deserves Another, 1862. Artist: John Tenniel
One Good Turn Deserves Another, 1862. Old Abe says: Why I Du Declare Its My Dear Old Friend Sambo! Course You ll Fight For Us, Sambo

Oberon and Titania, 1862. As the Civil War in America continued, President Davis of the Confederation issued a conscription notice to call all men between the ages of 18 and 45 to arms

Caesar Imperator!, 1861. ( The American Gladiators ) The American Gladiators are President Lincoln on the left to represent the Northern States

The Genu-ine Othello, 1861. In this cartoon, the slave is depicted as the real Othello quoting an approximation of a couplet from Shakespeares play

A Family Quarrel, 1861. On the left is President Lincoln and, facing him is Mrs Carolina, representative of the Southern States

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

Carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth, 1863. Creator: Unknown
A carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth, born Isabella " Belle" Baumfree (c. 1797-1883), who was an African-American abolitionist and womens rights activist

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