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Sculpture celebrating the abolishment of slavery, Big Corn Island, Caribbean Sea, Nicaragua, Central America





William Wilberforce (1759-1833) English philanthropist, Evengelical Christian and campaigner for abolition of slavery, Hand-c...
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) English philanthropist, Evengelical Christian and campaigner for abolition of slavery, Hand-coloured engraving 1821





Black slaves carrying coffee harvest, early 19th century engraving by Johann Lorenz Rugendas, 1775-1826 German





Slave raid in an African village. African warriors attempt to defend their village from a raid by armed slave traders. The ca...
Slave raid in an African village. African warriors attempt to defend their village from a raid by armed slave traders. The captured slaves are tethered together in pairs by yokes around their necks and are led away into the distance. Central Africa, circa 1900., Central Africa, Africa.





The United States (19th c.).Steamship in the river Mississippi. Cotton loading platform in the shore. Engraving.





Slave market with bust of Voltaire by Salvador Dali, oil on canvas, 1940-41, 1904-1989, USA, Florida, St. Petersburg, Salvado...
Slave market with bust of Voltaire by Salvador Dali, oil on canvas, 1940-41, 1904-1989, USA, Florida, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dali Museum





St. Gregory And The British Captives Blake, William(1757-1827 British) Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England





The backpage com section containing ´Adult´ ads of the Village Voice is seen in New York The NY City Council held a hearing f...
The backpage com section containing ´Adult´ ads of the Village Voice is seen in New York The NY City Council held a hearing for a resolution on the backpage com section and is calling for it to be shut down claiming that it encourages human trafficking A. The backpage com section containing ´Adult´ ads of the Village Voice is seen in New York The NY City Council held a hearing for a resolution on the backpage com section and is calling for it to be shut down claiming that it encourages human tra





D´Estrees Fort now a museum of slavery, Goree Island, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Africa





Auction & Negro Sales, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864, Photograph by George Barnard, Stereograph





Slave auction at Charleston. Prospective American buyers haggle over a group of imported African slaves being sold at an auct...
Slave auction at Charleston. Prospective American buyers haggle over a group of imported African slaves being sold at an auction in the centre of town. Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, 1856. Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, North America, North America .





Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit. 2040 BC. Detail of Queen Kawit at her toilet. Egyptian art. Middle Kingdom. Relief on rock. EGYPT...
Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit. 2040 BC. Detail of Queen Kawit at her toilet. Egyptian art. Middle Kingdom. Relief on rock. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. QUENA. Dayr al-Bahri. Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II.





GRABADO-MERCADO DE ESCLAVOS NEGROS-TRANSPORTE EN LA BODEGA DE UN BARCO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION, MADRID, SPAIN.





Muslim odalisque by Theodore Chasseriau, oil on canvas, 1856, 1819-1856, Private Collection, 66x55





bust of Toussaint Louverture, Fort de Joux, Doubs departement, Franche-Comte region, France Europe





Seamen like slaves in the galleys, watercolour print, Newport, 1712. Slavery, 16th century.





LA ABOLICION DE LA ESCLAVITUD - BOCETO - 1932-1941 - O/L - 1,34 x 1,45 m - PINTADO PARA EL VESTIBULO DEL RCA EN EL ROCKEFELLE...
LA ABOLICION DE LA ESCLAVITUD - BOCETO - 1932-1941 - O/L - 1,34 x 1,45 m - PINTADO PARA EL VESTIBULO DEL RCA EN EL ROCKEFELLER CENTER DE NUEVA YORK. Author: SERT JOSE MARIA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION, MADRID, SPAIN.





Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like fest...
Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like festival is celebrated in the early hours of the New Year lasting until the late morning and dates back to slavery days





On Slavery'. Title page of 'Memoir Addressed to the General, Constituent and Legislative Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, On...
On Slavery'. Title page of 'Memoir Addressed to the General, Constituent and Legislative Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, On Slavery', a book written by Brazilian slavery abolitionist Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva, published in England in 1826. Brazil, 1826. Brazil, South America, South America .





Band of male, female and child captives driven into slavery by Arab slave traders. Men are fastened together with slave forks...
Band of male, female and child captives driven into slavery by Arab slave traders. Men are fastened together with slave forks. From "The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone" c1875. Chromolithograph





Portugal, Lisbon, Museu da Cidade City Museum in Palacio Pimenta, azueljos showing a slave cooking





African slaves. Two yoked slaves are accompanied by guards riding a camel and a donkey. Northern Africa, circa 1900., Norther...
African slaves. Two yoked slaves are accompanied by guards riding a camel and a donkey. Northern Africa, circa 1900., Northern Africa, Africa.





Caricatura editada en el interior de la revista satírica "LA FLACA", donde aparece LA REPUBLICA acompañada de ESCLAVOS. Barce...
Caricatura editada en el interior de la revista satírica "LA FLACA", donde aparece LA REPUBLICA acompañada de ESCLAVOS. Barcelona. Cataluña.





Congolese rubber slaves. A group of male slaves pose, holding empty baskets, as they prepare to journey into the forest to co...
Congolese rubber slaves. A group of male slaves pose, holding empty baskets, as they prepare to journey into the forest to collect rubber vines for the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber company (ABIR). Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of Congo), circa 1905. Congo, Democratic Republic of, Central Africa, Africa.





Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin first published 1852. Death of Eva from tuberculosis. Tom and Topsy with family at be...
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin first published 1852. Death of Eva from tuberculosis. Tom and Topsy with family at bedside while rest of slaves in courtyard pray for Eva. Chromolithograph c1870.





Image Detail from front page of abolitionist poem: 'The Negro Woman's Appeal To Her White Sisters', Richard Barrett, printer,...
Image Detail from front page of abolitionist poem: 'The Negro Woman's Appeal To Her White Sisters', Richard Barrett, printer, Mark Lane, London, circa 1850s.





LANDALUZE, Victor Patricio de (1829-1889). Reed harvest. 1874. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas. CUBA. CIUDAD DE LA HABANA. Havana....
LANDALUZE, Victor Patricio de (1829-1889). Reed harvest. 1874. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas. CUBA. CIUDAD DE LA HABANA. Havana. National Museum of Fine Arts.





Evelyn Baring. Portrait of Evelyn Baring (1841-1917), the first Earl of Cromer. Baring was an English statesman, diplomat and...
Evelyn Baring. Portrait of Evelyn Baring (1841-1917), the first Earl of Cromer. Baring was an English statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator in Egypt. This image appeared in the October 1913 edition of the 'Anti-Slavery Reporter' and relates to his campaign against slavery in Portuguese west Africa. Location unknown, circa 1910.





Reproduction of the slave´s quarters in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson´s home. Virginia. USA





Flogging with a 'chicotte'. A mercenary working for King Leopold II's government, flogs a naked Congolese man, tied face down...
Flogging with a 'chicotte'. A mercenary working for King Leopold II's government, flogs a naked Congolese man, tied face down on the ground, with a 'chicotte'. Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of Congo), circa 1905. Congo, Democratic Republic of, Central Africa, Africa.





Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like fest...
Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like festival is celebrated in the early hours of the New Year and dates back to slavery days





Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like fest...
Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like festival is celebrated in the early hours of the New Year lasting until the late morning and dates back to slavery days





''Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly''. Illustration from poster for 1870 theatrical production. George, defending h...
''Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly''. Illustration from poster for 1870 theatrical production. George, defending his wife and child from recapture., Chromolithograph. Colour.'





American slavery and slave trade memorial park at Algiers Point, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA





Exterior of the Aububon ballroom facade, location for the Malcolm X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, Bro...
Exterior of the Aububon ballroom facade, location for the Malcolm X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, Broadway 165-166t, Manhattan, NYC, USA (June 2008)





Disposing of 'Black Army' rebels. French military officers dispose of 'Black Army' captives during the Haitian Revolution (17...
Disposing of 'Black Army' rebels. French military officers dispose of 'Black Army' captives during the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), throwing them, chained, into the sea. The conflict was fought between French colonialists and their Haitian slaves and established Haiti, then Saint Domingue, as a free republic. Haiti, circa 1800. Haiti, Caribbean, North America .





Red Slave, Bonaire island, Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles, red Obelisk, ABC_Island, ABC_Islands, Vacation, vacations,





William Wilberforce. Portrait of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English parliamentarian and renowned leader of the campa...
William Wilberforce. Portrait of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English parliamentarian and renowned leader of the campaign to abolish British slavery. England, circa 1790. England (United Kingdom), Western Europe, Europe .





Rubber is Death'. A pamphlet written by John Harris entitled 'Rubber is Death, The Story of the Bongwonga Rubber Collectors'....
Rubber is Death'. A pamphlet written by John Harris entitled 'Rubber is Death, The Story of the Bongwonga Rubber Collectors'. The publication exposed the atrocities of the rubber slave trade in the Congo Free State. Its title was coined from a contemporary Congolese proverb 'Botofi Bo Le Iwa' ('Rubber is Death'). Democratic Republic of Congo, 1904. Congo, Democratic Republic of, Central Africa, Africa.





D´Estrees Fort now a museum of slavery, Goree Island, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Africa





US slave sale poster. Poster advertising the public auction of 14 slaves. United States of America, circa 1830. United States...
US slave sale poster. Poster advertising the public auction of 14 slaves. United States of America, circa 1830. United States of America, North America, North America .





Surprised by Montague Kerr. A book illustration depicts African slave traders rushing their tethered captives into hiding on ...
Surprised by Montague Kerr. A book illustration depicts African slave traders rushing their tethered captives into hiding on the arrival of British explorer, Montague Kerr. Zanzibar (Tanzania), circa 1887., Zanzibar Central/South, Tanzania, Eastern Africa, Africa.





Decree of the National Convention abolishing slavery in the Colonies, February 4, 1794, drawing by Nicolas-Andre Monsiau (175...
Decree of the National Convention abolishing slavery in the Colonies, February 4, 1794, drawing by Nicolas-Andre Monsiau (1754-1837). French Revolution, France, 18th century.





Actresses dress in historic clothing on the streets of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, a ´living history´ museum with an assemblag...
Actresses dress in historic clothing on the streets of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, a ´living history´ museum with an assemblage of buildings populated with historical reenactors who work, dress, and talk as in colonial times





Egyptian Antiquities: Brewery and Bakery scene. Middle Kingdom. Egyptian Museum, Torino, Italy .





Gambia, Albreda, village, Gambia River, ruins, old French post, slave traders, Africa, building, house, riverbank, ban





Champlain Exploring the Canadian Wilderness, 1603, from 'The American Continent and its Inhabitants Before its Discovery by C...
Champlain Exploring the Canadian Wilderness, 1603, from 'The American Continent and its Inhabitants Before its Discovery by Columbus' by Anne C. Cady, 1893 19th Century American School Lithograph Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA





Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri. An ordinance abolishing slavery in Missouri, African-Americans





ARTE EGIPCIO. EGIPTO. Relieves policromados del interior de la MASTABA DE TI. Importante personaje de la corte de finales V D...
ARTE EGIPCIO. EGIPTO. Relieves policromados del interior de la MASTABA DE TI. Importante personaje de la corte de finales V DINASTIA. IMPERIO ANTIGUO. Escenas de GANADERIA y de ESCLAVAS PORTADORAS DE PRESENTES. NECROPOLIS DE SAKKARA.





Young couple, dom and slave, fetish, Wave_Gotik_Treffen festival, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Europe





Agricultural slaves, Ethiopia. Portrait of two male slaves, employed to labour in the fields near Addis Ababa. Near Addis Aba...
Agricultural slaves, Ethiopia. Portrait of two male slaves, employed to labour in the fields near Addis Ababa. Near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, circa 1930. Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Africa.





Statue des esclaves, statue commemorationg the freeing of the slaves, the chains are broken, Goree Island, near Dakar, Senega...
Statue des esclaves, statue commemorationg the freeing of the slaves, the chains are broken, Goree Island, near Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Africa





Travers Buxton. Portrait of Travers Buxton (c.1875-1945), at the time of this photograph, Vice Chairman of the General Commit...
Travers Buxton. Portrait of Travers Buxton (c.1875-1945), at the time of this photograph, Vice Chairman of the General Committee for the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. England, circa 1925. England (United Kingdom), Western Europe, Europe .





ARTE GRIEGO. MAGNA GRECIA. "REPRESENTACION DE UNAS MUJERES (probablemente esclavas o siervas) AYUDANDO A UNA DAMA A SALIR DEL...
ARTE GRIEGO. MAGNA GRECIA. "REPRESENTACION DE UNAS MUJERES (probablemente esclavas o siervas) AYUDANDO A UNA DAMA A SALIR DEL BAÑO". Lebes Gamikos. Estilo FIGURAS ROJAS. Años 340-320 a. C. Museo Arqueológico de Paestum. Italia.





Traditional Jewish Matzo sheet on a Passover Seder table Passover is a predominantly Jewish holy day and festival It commemor...
Traditional Jewish Matzo sheet on a Passover Seder table Passover is a predominantly Jewish holy day and festival It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt Passover begins on the 15th day. Traditional Jewish Matzo sheet on a Passover Seder table Passover is a predominantly Jewish holy day and festival It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt Passover begins on th





Original Film Title: AMISTAD. English Title: AMISTAD. Film Director: STEVEN SPIELBERG. Year: 1997. Stars: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY...
Original Film Title: AMISTAD. English Title: AMISTAD. Film Director: STEVEN SPIELBERG. Year: 1997. Stars: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY.





Memorial to the Anse Caffard drowned african slaves 1830. Le Diamant. Martinique. French West Indies. Caribbean





Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like fest...
Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like festival is celebrated in the early hours of the New Year lasting until the late morning and dates back to slavery days





Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like fest...
Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like festival is celebrated in the early hours of the New Year lasting until the late morning and dates back to slavery days





Silent despair. A Congolese man sits on a veranda, contemplating, in silent despair, the severed hand and foot of his five ye...
Silent despair. A Congolese man sits on a veranda, contemplating, in silent despair, the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter, killed along with his wife and son by ABIR militia (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber company). Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of Congo), circa 1904. Congo, Democratic Republic of, Central Africa, Africa.





Maison des Esclaves Slaves House, Goree Island, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Africa





George WASHINGTON surveying his agricultural workers at Mount Vernon, early 19th century lithograph





A pyramid of Congolese children. Missionary Alice Seeley Harris, dressed completely in white, stands above a pyramid of Congo...
A pyramid of Congolese children. Missionary Alice Seeley Harris, dressed completely in white, stands above a pyramid of Congolese children. Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of Congo), circa 1905. Congo, Democratic Republic of, Central Africa, Africa.





Prison Island, formerly the site where slaves were held prisoner before their shipping, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa





Egyptian Art. Relief depicting a group of prisoners with negroid features, Nubians, symbolizing the Egyptian border enemies. ...
Egyptian Art. Relief depicting a group of prisoners with negroid features, Nubians, symbolizing the Egyptian border enemies. Great Temple of Ramses II. 19th dynasty. New Kingdom. Abu Simbel. Egypt.





Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like fest...
Costumed dancers celebrate the New Year with the Junkanoo Parade on January 1, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas The carnival like festival is celebrated in the early hours of the New Year lasting until the late morning and dates back to slavery days





Caribbean slave gang. Several slaves are chained together by the neck in pairs and 'driven to work on the roads'. Dressed in ...
Caribbean slave gang. Several slaves are chained together by the neck in pairs and 'driven to work on the roads'. Dressed in dishevelled clothes and hats, the gang carry pickaxes and spades and are led by a fellow slave who brandishes a whip. Caribbean, circa 1825., Caribbean, North America .





ARTE ROMANO. TURQUIA. SARCOFAGO ROMANO decorado con relieves donde se representa una escena familiar. Una esclava muestra al ...
ARTE ROMANO. TURQUIA. SARCOFAGO ROMANO decorado con relieves donde se representa una escena familiar. Una esclava muestra al matrimonio romano su hijo pequeño. En ambos extremos de la cara del sarcófago, amorcillos. Museo de AFRODISIA DE CARIA.





Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Cane taken to vertical crushing mill powered by oxen. Juice extracted ...
Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Cane taken to vertical crushing mill powered by oxen. Juice extracted flows to boiling house where liquid boiled and refined. From Pierre Pomet A Compleat History of Drugs, 1725, Engraving





Portrait, Christian girl who works with her family under the slavery_like practice of debt bondage in a brick factory, Lahore...
Portrait, Christian girl who works with her family under the slavery_like practice of debt bondage in a brick factory, Lahore, Pakistan, Asia





Egyptian art. Relief depicting a group of prisoners with Asian features (symbolizing the enemies of Egypt border). Temple of ...
Egyptian art. Relief depicting a group of prisoners with Asian features (symbolizing the enemies of Egypt border). Temple of Ramses II. New Kingdom. Abu Simbel. Egypt.





Usa, Audubon State Historic Site; Louisiana, Girl Standing By Well Near Slave Cabins In Oakley Plantation





England, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull. The Wilberforce Monument on the Hull College forecourt. The monument was built in 18...
England, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull. The Wilberforce Monument on the Hull College forecourt. The monument was built in 1834 and is 102 feet tall. A statue of William Wilberforce, the former Hull MP and anti-slavery campaigner is positioned on the top.





The Dance of Miriam (from the Story of Moses) by Costa, Lorenzo (1460-1535)/ National Gallery, London/ after 1508/ Italy, Sch...
The Dance of Miriam (from the Story of Moses) by Costa, Lorenzo (1460-1535)/ National Gallery, London/ after 1508/ Italy, School of Ferrara/ Tempera on canvas/ Renaissance/ 119,3x78,7/ Bible





Sin is killed as represented by the devil during Carnival celebrations on Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro, Panama





A slave rebellion on a slaveship, 1833, by Edouard Antoine Renard (1802-1857), oil on canvas. Slavery, Caribbean, 19th centur...
A slave rebellion on a slaveship, 1833, by Edouard Antoine Renard (1802-1857), oil on canvas. Slavery, Caribbean, 19th century.





USA, Washington DC: Martin Luther King Memorial to the negro Civil Rights leader on the National Mall





Dutch planter with pipe and negro slave girl pouring him a drink on a Surinam plantation. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedr...
Dutch planter with pipe and negro slave girl pouring him a drink on a Surinam plantation. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.





WILLIAM WILBERFORCE philanthropist and reformer,leader of opposition to slavery : at age 29





Historical drawing, US_American history, 19th century, portrait of John Brown, 1800 _ 1859, a US_American abolitionist, aboli...
Historical drawing, US_American history, 19th century, portrait of John Brown, 1800 _ 1859, a US_American abolitionist, abolitionist movement, a movement to abolish slavery





The Exhausted Slave Whipped, from The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar, by Ameilia Opie, England, London, 1826





Moroccan slave market. Men and children at a Moroccan slave market. Morocco, circa 1911. Morocco, Northern Africa, Africa.





Frederick DOUGLASS, 1818-95, American abolitionist, writer and reformer, born into slavery, photographed c. 1879.

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