Slavery Collection

Poster of Niger steamers loading groundnuts
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, showing Niger steamers loading groundnuts. Date: C.1930

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

Broomfield, Clapham, London, 1904
Photograph showing the exterior of Broomfield, Clapham, London. This house was the home of William Wilberforce during the last years of his campaign against slavery and was being demolished in 1904

Plan and elevation of a sugar mill, 19th century.. Plan and elevation of a sugar mill, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W. Lowry after an Illustration by J

Slavery in Virginia and South Carolina
Enslaved people drying tobacco leaves in Virginia 76, slaves working on rice fields in South Carolina 77, and view of the natural bridge in Rockbridge, Virginia 78

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

Abraham Lincoln, a play by John Drinkwater, performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1918 and at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, from 1918 to 1919. 1919

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

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

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

The Wilberforce Oak at Keston near Bromley, Greater London. William Wilberforce was a frequent visitor to the area, and it was on top of the vale of Keston (near to an oak tree)

Dancers Detail from The Old Plantation
Detail of dancers from a watercolour The Old Plantation by an unknown artist, late 18th Century. The slaves are of Yoruba origin

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

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

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