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  • Two details from the triumphal arch in the courtyard of William III of Orange in The Hague, depicting victorious warriors returning from battle with a loot containing slaves. Etching.
  • Men, women and child slaves near Tete, Mozambique, are forced to walk through the fields fettered at the neck and wrists. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after J.B. Zwecker.
  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.
  • Two people in Persia described as black slaves: a man wearing a turban with a staff in his hand, and a woman carrying a tea tray with a jug and cups. Engraving after C. de Bruyn.
  • The mass execution of 335 Moroccans by the Sultan Muley Abdallah: a group of men shackled by chains to each others' necks are beheaded outside the Emperor's tent in the presence of English slaves. Etching by T. Reynolds.
  • A Tibetan woman and three slave Indians
  • Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.
  • Slave traders on an African coast enslave some of its inhabitants: a man is taken by two slave traders to their boat, while his wife and child is taken by a different slave trader to another boat. Coloured stipple engraving by Citoyenne Rollet after George Morland.
  • Saint Raymund Nonnatus (31st August).Born in 1180 (?). Founder of the Order of Our Lady of Rnsom, died in 1240. He gave himself as a hostage to redeem slaves from the Moors. He is the patron of children and midwives. Invoked for pregnant women and against puerperal fever ( from non-natus!). Represented bearing a monstrance or a palm with three crowns on it.
  • A slave is kneeling on the ground as Paul and Virginie try to protect him from a slave-owner holding a pipe and a stick. Engraving by G. Barrett, 1788, after J. Moreau.
  • Figures in the slave market, Cairo. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Centres of the slave trade in East Africa patrolled by the Royal Navy. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • American Civil War: the free and slave states, and of the unsettled territory. Wood engraving, 1856.
  • Dasaratha being asked in court to banish Rama by Kaikeyi and her humpbacked female slave Manthara. Chromolithograph.
  • The slave market in Cairo. Lithograph by J.C. Bourne after O.B. Carter and H. Warren, ca. 1840.
  • A white slave-owner handing a knife to a black enslaved man. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1832, after W. Harvey.
  • Two male merchants in Constantinople haggle over a woman slave, while other women look on. Tinted lithograph by T. Allom after himself.
  • A meeting at Exeter Hall on the abolition of the slave trade. Engraving by H. Melville after T.H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.
  • A slave is flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails while a woman is kneeling and pleading for mercy nearby. Wood engraving.
  • Three young enslaved women in Africa, chained together at the neck, escorted along a road by two slave traders with guns. Watercolour.
  • Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.
  • The capture of the slave ship Emilia off the north coast of Cuba by the Royal Navy ships Styx and Jasper. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • The free and slave states of America, showing the eastern and southern American states and also parts of Canada. Lithograph drawn by Prof. Lindsay.
  • A woman slave in Bali, standing with a cloth in her hands and a wide hat on her head. Engraving after C. de Bruyn.
  • Death mask of Eustache, a slave from the Dominican republic who came to be awarded a 'prize for virtue' in 1830's Paris. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • A crowd gathered in Exeter Hall, London, to hear speakers on the abolition of the slave trade. Coloured engraving by J. Harris, 1840, after S. Blunt.
  • A gentleman and a lady riding in horse-drawn coach, with a black slave boy riding on the back. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1845.
  • Virginie giving a bowl of food to a starving black slave woman who has fled from her master. Engraving by E. Rouargue, 1824, after A. Desenne.
  • Venus as a black woman slave travelling on a shell across the Atlantic from Angola to the West Indies. Engraving by W. Grainger, 1794, after T. Stothard.