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Enslaved Persons

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Images from the collections

Images about Enslaved Persons

28 images from works
  • 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.

Works from the collections

102 works

    • Ephemera

    New new, young oriental mistress, love slaves.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Department of correction for beginners & connoisseurs, assured private discreet address : fully equipped chambers : humiliation, domination, correction, bondage, rubber, leather, hot wax, foot fetishes, electro treatment. transformation ,slave training, C.P.

    | Date: [1999]
    • Books

    Medicine and healing in the age of slavery / edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D.E. Willoughby.

    | Date: [2021]
    • Books

    Disease, resistance, and lies : the demise of the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil and Cuba / Dale T. Graden.

    Graden, Dale Torston, 1952- | Date: [2014]
    • Ephemera

    Severe mistress : domination, C.P., humiliation, slave training, transformations, torture, bondage, fully equipped, dungeon.

    | Date: [2001]

Related topics

Prostitutes
Prostitution
London
Sex
Sexual dominance and submission
Sadomasochism
Corporal punishment
Bondage (Sexual behavior)
Transvestism
Black people

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