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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.