Slaves Collection

Egyptian and Phoenician vessels.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia 1856
Some female slaves, smartly dressed with white aprons and bow ties, seated with children on their knees, waiting to be sold at an auction, Virginia, 1856. Date: 1856

Slaves for sale, New Orleans, 1861
Engraving showing a row of slaves, lined up prior to auction in New Orleans, USA, 1861. Seven men in top hats and suits, four women in calico dresses and two children are ready to be sold

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

Diamond mines workers 1887
Various scenes showing the mistreatment of black workers in the diamond mines of South Africa. Date: 1887

Scene from the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - also features his portrait profile and signature. Date: circa 1900s

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

Slaves bringing sugar cane to a sugar mill on a plantation in Brazil.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

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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