Slave Collection

Saint Brigid of Ireland
Saint Brigid (Bride, Bridget) of Ireland (or of Kildare, or Mary of the Gael), one of Ireland's patron saints. She is thought to have been a slave who became a Christian nun

Clocks at Greenwich
Left, Synchronome Free Pendulum at Greenwich Observatory, with right, the Slave Clock which performs its escapement function, accurate to 1/100th second

Spartacus and rebellion of Gladiators
In 73 B.C Spartacus was sold, into the service of Lentulus Batiates, a man who taught at a ludus for gladiators. Spartacus and two Gallic gladiators led a riot at the school

St. Gregory with English children
St Gregory (Gregory the Great) - Shortly before becoming Pope, St. Gregory saw some English children who were to be sold as slaves in the Roman Forum

A Slave Auction in Virginia, USA, 1861 A Slave Auction in Virginia, USA 1861
An auction room in Virginia, during a slave auction in 1861. A young, black slave couple with a baby stand on a mounting block as the auctioneer stands beside them, waving at the bidders. Date: 1861

Mid-18th century German male fashions worn by state officials.. From a mural by the Venetian artist Tiepelo in Wurzburg castle. Below the balcony is a black servant boy with a hunting dog

King Henry VIII in Victorian hunting outfit on horseback
King Henry VIII in Victorian hunting outfit with a shepherds crook on horseback chasing a Catholic monk fleeing with the church gold. Parody of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, circa 1540

Festival in honour of the Serpent God (centered around Ouidah, Benin). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

The punishment for adultery in Guinea (Slave Coast). A man is roasted alive in front of his lover, who is tied in a pit and scalded with boiling water

Mehmed the Conqueror and Nadir Shah
Portraits of Mohammed II or Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan, showing the Turkish Ouralian character, and Nadir Shah, or Thamas Kouli Khan, or the Slave of Thamas, 18th century conqueror

Charles James Fox speaking out in Parliament against slavery
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), British Whig Statesman, MP and ardent anti-slavery campaigner, shown here speaking out in Parliament against the slave trade

CUTTING CANE, LOUISIANA
Black workers cut sugar cane on a plantation in Louisiana, USA. Date: 1886

Slaves working in a Sugar Mill in the West Indies. Date: 1816

A British Cruiser attacking an Arab Slave Dhow. Date: circa 1910s

Monument in memory of Uncle Tom - Rev. Josiah Henson
Monument erected in memory of abolitionist, minister and author Rev. Josiah Henson - born into Slavery in 1789 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland

The Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1907

Exotic Eastern Woman - Citadel, Tombs of Mamluks, Cairo
Composite photographic postcard showing an illustration of an exotic Eastern woman set before a skyline showing the Citadel and Tombs of the Mamluks, Cairo, Egypt

The Old Slave Block, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. In the days prior to the US Civil War, the block was used for the sale and annual hire of slaves

Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
Postcard celebrating the centenary of President Abraham Lincolns Birth in 1809, illustration his Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st 1863. Date: 1909

A group of Coolies, India. Historically, a coolie (variously spelled cooli, cooly, kuli, quli, koelie etc.) was an Asian slave or manual labourer, particularly in southern China

Havana, Cuba - The former Slave Market Date: 1947

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

Football Terms Illustrated - Well Collared!. Two smart Gents (Dedicated Followers of Fashion!) in really rather ridiculous starched collars, stroll arm in arm down Park Lane past Marble Arch

The Slave Market, St. Augustine, Florida, USA Date: 1902

Moroccan Chef - Tangier, Morocco
Esclave Cordon Bleu A Moroccan Chef (from Tangier, Morocco) enters the room bearing a tagine tea cosy! Date: circa 1910

Abolition of Slavery in Jamaica. Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1834, but Slaves received their unrestricted freedom in Jamaica on August 1st, 1838. Date: 1838

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America from 1861 until his assassination by John Wilkes Booth in 1865

Caractacus at the Tribunal of Claudius at Rome. Published 1792

Ulysses and Eumaeus
Ulysses talks with Eumaeus, the slave and shepherd

Love in a Cage by Flix de Gray
A piece of art by Flix de Gray entitled " Cupid the Slave", depicting Cupid, the spirit of love, trapped in a cage by an aristocratic lady wearing an 18th century wig and dress

Matchbox making at home, East End of London
A woman with her three children engaged in making matchboxes at their home in the East End of London. The work, which involved pasting and assembling the boxes, was notoriously badly paid

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