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  • Example of a Roman military punishment, soldiers being sold into slavery and servitude
  • Slavery in the Sudan: people fastened at the neck to wooden clamps are being led away into slavery in Egypt. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after K. Girardet.
  • Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.
  • Three illustrations of Roman military punishment: banishment, degrading punishment, and freemen degraded and sold into slavery. Etchings by A.M.I. after W. Hogarth.
  • Two black women and a boy on Lake Chad are about to be led away into slavery by a Spaniard. Stipple engraving by E. Finden, 1843, after Perring.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition. J. Stedman, 1796.
  • A meeting at Exeter Hall on the abolition of the slave trade. Engraving by H. Melville after T.H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.
  • African men, women and children captured in order to become slaves. Lithograph, ca. 1874.
  • Members of the provisional government of the Second Republic of France, 1848. Lithograph.
  • The execution of a Christian prisoner in Algeria by suspending him from a wooden frame by hooks penetrating his right arm and leg. Etching with engraving.
  • 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).
  • The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
  • 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.
  • Above, Algerians executing a Christian slave for attempting to escape by suspending him on hooks through hands and feet in a wooden frame; below, Algerians torturing a burglar by cutting off his hand, hanging it around his neck and tying him on a bull. Engraving by C. Grignion after W. Grainger.
  • 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 coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • 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.
  • William Marriott, member of Parliament for Brighton, as Hercules fighting a two-headed hydra with the faces of W.E. Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 1 March 1884.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.
  • Charles Gregory and Jack Brown dancing the Cake-Walk in Paris.
  • Charles Gregory and Jack Brown dancing the Cake-Walk in Paris.
  • The voyage of the sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Manchu lady with her daughter-in-law. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged thirty. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.