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  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
  • Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.
  • Rio de Janeiro: young children are being sold as slaves to men in cloaks and wide hats. Aquatint by Edward Finden, 1824, after Augustus Earle, ca. 1820.
  • 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.
  • Louise Chevalier in the role of Virginie is feeding water from her hands into the mouth of a black man in a loin-cloth. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1799, after C. Henard.
  • British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • Convoys of female slaves, with children, in Angola, chained together and carrying heavy bundles. Wood engraving.
  • Slaves rescued from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, brought to Fort Augusta, Kingston, Jamaica . Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • 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.
  • To be seen at the Black Peruke, facing the mews, Charing-Cross ... : White negress : account of white negroes.
  • A slave is kneeling on the ground as Paul and Virginie try to protect him from a slave-owner holding a pipe and a stick. Engraving by G. Barrett, 1788, after J. Moreau.
  • Two men wearing turbans standing in a harbour converse with a sailor while sailors and captives are seated on the ground. Etching by M. Schaep, 1649, after C. de Wael.
  • Two people in Persia described as black slaves: a man wearing a turban with a staff in his hand, and a woman carrying a tea tray with a jug and cups. Engraving after C. de Bruyn.
  • A white slave-owner handing a knife to a black enslaved man. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1832, after W. Harvey.
  • A woman slave in Bali, standing with a cloth in her hands and a wide hat on her head. Engraving after C. de Bruyn.
  • Recife, Brazil: a street with men in high hats and uniform pointing out with long sticks the slaves they wish to purchase. Aquatint by Edward Finden after Augustus Earle.
  • Slaves in the Sudan with their hands manacled in planks forced to walk across the desert by their captors and guards who are mounted on camels. Wood engraving after G. Montbard.
  • African men, women and children captured in order to become slaves. Lithograph, ca. 1874.
  • 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.
  • Three young enslaved women in Africa, chained together at the neck, escorted along a road by two slave traders with guns. Watercolour.
  • Saint Peter Claver. Engraving by J. Vitta after P. Gagliardi.