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Enslaved children

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  • Slavery in the Sudan: people fastened at the neck to wooden clamps are being led away into slavery in Egypt. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after K. Girardet.
  • A gentleman and a lady riding in horse-drawn coach, with a black slave boy riding on the back. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1845.
  • Slaves in Madagascar subjected to physical punishment: (left) a boy wearing a heavy iron collar is carrying a heavy piece of wood; (right) a woman with her head in a cangue is carrying a basket. Wood engraving after W. Ellis, 1858.
  • A boy slave in Zanzibar punished by being forced to stand with a heavy piece of wood on his head which is chained to his ankle. Process print by C.H., 1896, after W.K. Firminger.
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    Slavery in the Sudan: people fastened at the neck to wooden clamps are being led away into slavery in Egypt. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after K. Girardet.

    Girardet, Karl, 1813-1871. | Date: [1866] | Reference: 43338i
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    Slavery, childhood, and abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 / Colleen A. Vasconcellos.

    Vasconcellos, Colleen A., 1973- | Date: [2015]
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    A boy slave in Zanzibar punished by being forced to stand with a heavy piece of wood on his head which is chained to his ankle. Process print by C.H., 1896, after W.K. Firminger.

    Firminger, Walter K. (Walter Kelly), 1870-1940. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37959i
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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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    A gentleman and a lady riding in horse-drawn coach, with a black slave boy riding on the back. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1845.

    Fernando II, King, consort of Maria II, Queen of Portugal, 1816-1885. | Date: 1845 | Reference: 2872243i
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