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  • Carciature by Robert Cruikshank: English Factory Slaves
  • Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Slaves irrigating by water-wheel on the banks of the Nile. Wood engraving.
  • Slaves rescued from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, brought to Fort Augusta, Kingston, Jamaica . Wood engraving, 1857.
  • British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.
  • The capture of slaves by an African slaver in Africa. Watercolour, 18--.
  • The capture of slaves by an African slaver in Africa. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Burma: slaves (?) pulling a float towards the right. Gouache painting.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : even master minds can be slaves to migraine.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : even master minds can be slaves to migraine.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : even master minds can be slaves to migraine.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : even master minds can be slaves to migraine.
  • African men, women and children captured in order to become slaves. Lithograph, ca. 1874.
  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • The execution of slaves by means of beheading by the Bakuti, near Equator Station. Wood engraving.
  • Convoys of female slaves, with children, in Angola, chained together and carrying heavy bundles. Wood engraving.
  • Male and female Ethiopian slaves resting, Korti, Sudan. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
  • Roman military punishment showing the breaking of the legs of slaves or persons of an inferiour level.
  • The children of Indian slaves, playing with bows, arrows and a musket. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Slaves in the Sudan with their hands manacled in planks forced to walk across the desert by their captors and guards who are mounted on camels. Wood engraving after G. Montbard.
  • Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.
  • Lord Goderich shaving, and Lord Howick shoeing, a group of slaves: referring to the abolitionists. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1832.
  • A black man is shaking hands with Napoleon III, thanking him ironically for supporting the freedom of slaves. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • French sailors feeding manacled black slaves in San Domingo to ravenous blood-hounds. Engraving by J. Barlow, 1805, after M. Rainsford.
  • A bath-house for galley-slaves, in which the first treatment of scabies was said to have been undertaken. Process print after a drawing.
  • Sêrro do Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil: slaves washing soil for diamonds, supervised by men with whips. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, 1821, after J. Mawe.
  • Slaves in Madagascar subjected to physical punishment: (left) a boy wearing a heavy iron collar is carrying a heavy piece of wood; (right) a woman with her head in a cangue is carrying a basket. Wood engraving after W. Ellis, 1858.
  • Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
  • Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
  • Recife, Brazil: a street with men in high hats and uniform pointing out with long sticks the slaves they wish to purchase. Aquatint by Edward Finden after Augustus Earle.