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  • A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick. Engraving, 1793, after J.G. Stedman.
  • A woman in Cairo holding a child, accompanied by an Abyssinian slave woman standing next to the cradle. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron after Prisse d'Avennes, 1848.
  • A black woman slave in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1795, after J.G. Stedman.
  • [Small print (1860?) of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • [Small print (1860?) of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A slave who venerated the relics of Saint Mark is saved from martyrdom when his instrument of torture is broken by a miracle. Colour woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1731/1745, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • A boy slave in Zanzibar punished by being forced to stand with a heavy piece of wood on his head which is chained to his ankle. Process print by C.H., 1896, after W.K. Firminger.
  • A man charged with punishing a slave who venerated the relics of Saint Mark shows that his instrument of torture was broken by a miracle. Colour woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1731/1745, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • A man charged with punishing a slave who venerated the relics of Saint Mark shows that his instrument of torture was broken by a miracle. Colour woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1731/1745, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • A man charged with punishing a slave who venerated the relics of Saint Mark shows that his instrument of torture was broken by a miracle. Colour woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1731/1745, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • A black man in blue shorts stands chained at the feet and hands, representing a black person without understanding of AIDS as a slave to ignorance. Colour lithograph by Deborah Riley for the South Carolina AIDS Education Network.
  • Habesh or Abyssinian Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • Cairene lady waited upon by a Galla Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • [Illustrated handbill advertising an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London on 17 September 1855 (in bold type). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • [Illustrated handbill advertising an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London on 17 September 1855 (in lighter type). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • [Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • 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.
  • Two black domestic servants in European dress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A man of high rank in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig.
  • Mexico: part of a pre-Hispanic bas-relief from Mexico City, showing a sacrifice. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.
  • Mexico: a pre-Hispanic bas-relief from Oaxaca, showing a warrior. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.
  • Popular science, Arthur Mee, 1912.
  • Saint Peter Claver. Engraving by J. Vitta after P. Gagliardi.
  • A Ba-yanzi monument of mud, daubed with ochre in fantastic figures and surrounded with skulls on sticks. Coloured wood engraving after E.J. Glave and H. Ward.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.