Slavery Collection (#16)

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

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

Title page of Schildtbergers Travels c1554. Hans or Johann Schildtberger (1380-c1440), a Bavarian nobleman, was captured in 1396 by Turks under Sultan Bazajet and sold into slavery in Asia

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

Saw gin for cleaning cotton being operated by barefoot black labourer, southern USA, 1865. An Eagle gin, an improved form of the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney (1765-1825) in 1794

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 auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, c1860-62
Slave auction shop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA c1860-62

Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer, Southern states of USA
Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer. Southern states of USA, 1860. Wood engraving

Slave quarters on a plantation in Georgia, USA

Oruro Mask, Bolivia. Mask from the Oruro region of Bolivia. La Diablada or Oruro Diablada is a typical Andean masked dance to appease the evil spirits

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

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

Cardinal Lavigerie, Founder of the Anti-Slavery Society, 1891. Cardinal Lavigerie (1825-92) and some of his band of White Fathers who dedicated their lives to the cause of abolition of slave trade in

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

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

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

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