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Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving

Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving

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Don Quixote Releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

Don Quixote Releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quix...

William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Public domain scan of English 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States slave trade, 1830 - Public domain  engraving

United States slave trade, 1830 - Public domain engraving

An abolitionist print possibly engraved in 1830, but undocumented aside from the letterpress text which appears on an accompanying sheet. The text reads: "United States' slave trade, 1830. The Copper Plate from... More

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Banks

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Banks

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Old Market House, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina

Old Market House, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1838. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-26. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and... More

A boat sits in the water next to a stone wall. Boats dowe shore

A boat sits in the water next to a stone wall. Boats dowe shore

Slavery. Free images of slavery. Use free photos of slavery without any copyright restrictions.

In the Slave Market, Constantinople

In the Slave Market, Constantinople

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"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street. Washington DC sterescope ca...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street, Confederate States of America.

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street, Confederate States of Ameri...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 102 slaves held at the slave mart on Chalmers ... More

The Blind Enthusiast (BM 2007,7058.3)

The Blind Enthusiast (BM 2007,7058.3)

Satire on the campaign to end the British slave trade: William Wilberforce is shown wearing a fool's cap, bells (labelled "Humility", "Justice", "Piety", "Credulity", "Calumny" and "Enthusiasm"), and ass's ears... More

'The Fantyman Head Dress, Gold Coast, Africa' (Bray album) RMG PT2040

'The Fantyman Head Dress, Gold Coast, Africa' (Bray album) RMG PT2040

'The Fantyman Head Dress, Gold Coast, Africa' [Bray album] No. 65 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Bray's title, as above, is inscribed below these two head studies each with slightly different patterns of shaved hair... More

'The Head-dress of the Jolliffes, Gum Coast, Africa' (Bray album) RMG PT2028

'The Head-dress of the Jolliffes, Gum Coast, Africa' (Bray album) RMG ...

'The Head-dress of the Jolliffes, Gum Coast, Africa' [Bray album]No. 53 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Titled as above, on the drawing, and dated and signed on a close-trimmed tag of the backing sheet 'March 75 GB'.... More

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing outside a building designated Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. No. 2296. Part of series: The War for the Union. Ph... More

The slave market (2), da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica

The slave market (2), da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica

Português: Obra da coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica. Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The slave market (3), da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica

The slave market (3), da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica

Português: Obra da coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica. Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shippingfromsainthelena - A painting of ships in a body of water

Shippingfromsainthelena - A painting of ships in a body of water

A painting of ships anchored at the island of St. Helena, possibly a convoy of six small ships of the line led by Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, on his way to Chennai (then known as Madras) in southern India, to a... More

Gérôme Jean-Léon The Slave Market

Gérôme Jean-Léon The Slave Market

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The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern - the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome; the African slave trade and the political (14762069176)

The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern - the f...

Identifier: historyofslavery5491blak (find matches) Title: The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and R... More

Slave-girls. Suakim RMG RT1387

Slave-girls. Suakim RMG RT1387

Slave-girls. Suakim Albumen print. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection (with another photograph on the reverse, 'The country near Suakim over which Graham's forces advanced to McNeil's zariba... More

Slave dealers caught in the act RMG E9138

Slave dealers caught in the act RMG E9138

Slave dealers caught in the act Silver gelatin glass lantern slide of slave dealers, which is inscribed: 'They had kidnapped 70 children and were sailing them out of the harbour flying the French flag to decei... More

Slaves released RMG E9094, British navy ship

Slaves released RMG E9094, British navy ship

Slaves released Silver gelatin glass lantern slide of a group of released slaves posed on the deck of a ship. Slaves released (From glass slide)

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Sold to go south. (see page 178)

Sold to go south. (see page 178)

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Black Mother being separated from her baby

Black Mother being separated from her baby

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Slaves chained together by the neck and driven to work on the roads. See Bickells "West Indies as they are," page 15

Slaves chained together by the neck and driven to work on the roads. S...

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The case of the Royal African Company of England

The case of the Royal African Company of England

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[The American Slave; Illustration in Pearson's Magazine].

[The American Slave; Illustration in Pearson's Magazine].

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Cape Coast Castle (Cabo Corso), Gold Coast; First a Portuguese and then a British depôt (founded in 1626) and shipping-place for the slave trade.

Cape Coast Castle (Cabo Corso), Gold Coast; First a Portuguese and the...

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Slaves escaping and rebelling. Alexander Anderson scrapbooks

Slaves escaping and rebelling. Alexander Anderson scrapbooks

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Survivors from the cargo of the Negro slave yacht "Wanderer"

Survivors from the cargo of the Negro slave yacht "Wanderer"

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Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the right of petition, as connected with petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia: in the House of representatives, January 25, 1836.

Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the right of petition, as ...

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving

Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving

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Traversée : danse de nègres. - A group of men standing on top of a boat

Traversée : danse de nègres. - A group of men standing on top of a boa...

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[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahee, South Carolina, and escaped slave named Gordon]

[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...

Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More

Anti-Slavery Medallion, Wedgwood porcelain manufactory, England

Anti-Slavery Medallion, Wedgwood porcelain manufactory, England

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Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 33 slaves held at the slave mart on Chalmers S... More

Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade RMG F7397

Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade RMG F7397

Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade This is the title page of 'Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade' by James Montgomery and others, 1809. The illustration below the title features an allegory in a r... More

The inspection and sale of a slave

The inspection and sale of a slave

The inspection and sale of a Negro.This reproduction of a wood engraving was originally published in Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer. It depicts an African man being inspec... More

The Slave market at Rio - Drawing. Public domain image.

The Slave market at Rio - Drawing. Public domain image.

Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro, 1824 Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cudjoe Lewis photo (cropped)

Cudjoe Lewis photo (cropped)

Photo of Cudjo Lewis (c.1841 - 1935), the third to last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the United States.

Sally Bonetta Forbes - An old photo of a woman sitting at a table

Sally Bonetta Forbes - An old photo of a woman sitting at a table

Born in West Africa in the area once known as ‘the Slave Coast,’ she was captured and became a slave of the King of Dahomey when she was about 5 years old. Two years later, in June 1850, Commodore Forbes of H.... More

Guinea Coast slave abduction c 1791 by Wadström

Guinea Coast slave abduction c 1791 by Wadström

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Sugar-cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean RMG E9087

Sugar-cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean RMG E9087

Sugar-cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean Albumen print. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection (Mounted with ZBA2613; with another photograph above, 'W.I. Band') These two photographs show life ... More

["Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street], Confederate States of America.

["Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street], Confederate States of Ame...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph shows horse and buggy and soldiers outside building with sign Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, VA. War Views. No. 2296. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.

The Sale - A picture of two men standing next to each other

The Sale - A picture of two men standing next to each other

Card showing Afro-American slave being sold. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manuscript of an officer of the highest class moving to Portugal
Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

Historic sketches of the South - Public domain portrait drawing

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Barbarity committed on a free African, who was found on the ensuing morning, by the side of the road, dead!

Barbarity committed on a free African, who was found on the ensuing mo...

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The separation of a family of slaves after being seized & sold upon a warrant of destraint for their masters debts. As described in Bickells "West Indies as they are," page 16&17.

The separation of a family of slaves after being seized & sold upon a ...

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Certificate of freedom in ten years for woman named Dinah, signed by Maria Duffie

Certificate of freedom in ten years for woman named Dinah, signed by M...

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Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the suppression of the African slave trade

Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the su...

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Slave sale, Charleston, South Carolina.

Slave sale, Charleston, South Carolina.

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In the slave market at Cairo. - Drawing. Public domain image.

In the slave market at Cairo. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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The mode of flogging Slaves, as described in Bickells "West Indies as they are."

The mode of flogging Slaves, as described in Bickells "West Indies as ...

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Slaves Alexander Anderson scrapbooks

Slaves Alexander Anderson scrapbooks

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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