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Enslaved women

Images

  • The voyage of the sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies.
  • A black woman slave  in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1795, after J.G. Stedman.
  • Abraham banishes Hagar and Ishmael; Sarah and Isaac look on. Engraving by R. Parr after G. Hoet.
  • Two male merchants in Constantinople haggle over a woman slave, while other women look on. Tinted lithograph by T. Allom after himself.
  • A woman in Cairo holding a child, accompanied by an Abyssinian slave woman standing next to the cradle. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron after Prisse d'Avennes, 1848.
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Catalogue

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    Head of a young woman as a Turkish slave girl. Line engraving by T. Viero after G.B. Piazzetta.

    Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1754. | Date: [between 1770 and 1779?] | Reference: 2866009i
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    A black woman slave in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1795, after J.G. Stedman.

    Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797. | Date: Decr. 1st 1795 | Reference: 37912i
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    The price for their pound of flesh : the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation / Daina Ramey Berry.

    Berry, Daina Ramey | Date: 2017
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    Ethiopia: women slaves with their owner; left, two men haggling over prices. Coloured lithograph by B. Plockhorst after J.M. Bernatz.

    Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878. | Date: [1852-1855] | Reference: 3017296i
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    Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.

    Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- | Date: 2013
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