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  • British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.
  • African men, women and children captured in order to become slaves. Lithograph, ca. 1874.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Two male merchants in Constantinople haggle over a woman slave, while other women look on. Tinted lithograph by T. Allom after himself.
  • Three young enslaved women in Africa, chained together at the neck, escorted along a road by two slave traders with guns. Watercolour.
  • 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.
  • Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.
  • Centres of the slave trade in East Africa patrolled by the Royal Navy. Wood engraving, 1875.