Slavery Collection (page 14)

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

Mount Potosi, Bolivia, c1788. In 1545 one of the worlds richest silver deposits was discovered at Mount (Cerro) Potosi in what is now Bolivia

Breadfuit (Artocarpus incisus), 1823
Breadfuit (Artocarpus incisus), c1798. A tree with fruit with white pulp like new bread, it was introduced into the West Indies as an important food crop for plantation slaves

Breadfuit (Artocarpus incisus), c1798. A tree with fruit with white pulp like new bread, it was introduced into the West Indies as an important food crop for plantation slaves

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

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

The Israelites crossing of the Red Sea, Second Half of the 19th cen Artist: Kotarbinsky
The Israelites crossing of the Red Sea, Second Half of the 19th cen.. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Architecture and Art, Rybinsk

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

Native American ritual club
A pacific north-west coast Native American ritual club with a bears head, made from elk antler. It was used as a slave killer at potlach festivals. Currently at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

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

Second century Roman bronze plaque with a dedication to Feronia
Roman bronze plaque with a dedication to Feronia, a goddess worshipped by freedmen and freedwomen. This plaque was dedicated in fulfillment of a vow by Hedone

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

Negro labour loading sacks of cotton on cart, Southern states of USA
Negro labour loading sacks of cotton on cart to be taken for dressing and ginning, Southern states of USA. Wood engraving, 1860

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

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)

John Caldwell Calhoun, American statesman, 19th century. Calhoun (1782-1850) served as Vice-President from 1825-1832, and then as a US Senator until 1850

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, c1870. The site of a slave rebellion led by John Brown. It ended in an engine house to the left of the track leading down to the ferry on 18 October 1859

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

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