There is a large collection on slavery related pictures on salveryimages.org.
Thanks to Bristol Central Reference Library.
The Capture of Slaves in Africa
Slaves being moved to the coast of Africa destined for St. Domingue, 1786.The slave chain, Little Popo, 1849.An African dealer marches Slaves to the coast where they will be sold.
The Slave Ships
Slaves being moved to the coast of Africa destined for St. Domingue, 1786.An African dealer marches Slaves to the coast where they will be sold.Enslaved Africans in Hold of Slave Ship, 1827
A page from the log book of the Black Prince, a slave ship sailing out of Bristol in 1763.A page from the log book of the Black Prince, a slave ship sailing out of Bristol in 1763. This page notes that there are 488 slaves on board.
The entry for Tuesday 22nd (above left) describes an uprising by the slaves –This 24 hours light winds and hazey weather at 1/2 past 3 am found the slaves was intending to rise got all under arms and soon got them quited tho a great numb~ of them had broken there irons came on board Capt. Johnstons people to our assistance at 6 am got some of them up and got them secured found out 20 of which was the ring leasders which was well flogged washed slaves –From Bristol Central Reference Library. refandinfo@bristol.gov.uk
The Selling of Slaves
Gate & Slave Market at Pernambuco, Brazil, 1821.A Bristol gun maker’s business card. From Bristol Central Reference Library. refandinfo@bristol.gov.ukEuropean and African slave traders, 1856.
Slave Market on the Kambia River, Coast of Africa. A woodcut from an oil painting from 1840.Spanish “gentlemen” selecting slaves in Cuba, 1837.An imagined picture of a slave auction used as propaganda before the American Civil War.
“Dealers inspecting a Negro at a slave auction in Virginia”, 1861
The Plantations
Slave Market on the Kambia River, Coast of Africa. A woodcut from an oil painting from 1840.An imagined picture of a slave auction used as propaganda before the American Civil War.European and African slave traders, 1856.
The Punishments
Punishment of the Four Stakes, 1849.Plantation overseer punishes a slave in Brazil, 1834.An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction, 1834.
The Abolitionists
John Newton. Slave ship captain and writer of several hundred hymns including Amazing Grace. He later became an abolitionist.Olaudah Equiano. A slave who bought his freedom and later campaigned against slavery in England.Granville Sharp. A pioneer of the anti-slavery movement.
The frontispiece and title pages of the first London (1789) and New York (1791) editions of The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano.
Thomas Clarkson. Bravely collected information from Bristol and Liverpool that would be used in the Abolition Bill of 1807.William Wilberforce. The abolition movement’s chief voice in Parliament.Grateful slaves receive the “gift” of emancipation from Britannia. 1838.
The Revolts
Toussaint L’OuvertureToussaint L’Ouverture, a Maroon* leader from Haiti, he defeated both British and French armies. Above right and possibly left by C. H. Dietrich.Toussaint L’Ouverture
Jamaican Maroon* Captain Leonard Parkinson, 1796. Engraver Abraham Raimbach. From B. Edwards, The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in Regard to the Maroon Negroes – A copy of this book is available in Bristol Central Reference Library.‘Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, National Hero’ on the Bank of Jamaica $50 note. Sharpe was an educated town slave who became the leader of the 1831 Jamaica uprising.A Jamaican slave revolt, 1759. From Histoire d’Angleterre by David Francois.
*The history of the Maroons primarily is the saga of Africans who refused to live in slavery, and it begins on the island of Jamaica with the fleeing of the Spanish in 1655. The name Maroon is the British corruption of the Spanish cimarrones, meaning wild or untamed. Living in inaccessible regions of Jamaica, the numbers of the Maroons grew as more and more runaway slaves, this time from the new British plantations, flocked to their cause, and with their continual raiding of the British plantations, they rapidly became a thorn in the side of the British colonists. Unique among all Africans that were brought to the New World as slaves, the Maroons earned for themselves an autonomy that no other African slaves could. (Wikipedia) In 1795-6 the Maroons of Jamaica revolted against the colonial government. The revolt failed. At the request of Jamaica about six hundred Maroons were then transported to Nova Scotia and given assistance in settling here. In 1800 virtually all of them emigrated to Sierra Leone. (www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/ch3.asp?Language=English)
Fire of the Cape Francais in Saint DomingoA slave rebel army hanging French officers in St. Domingue. From Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (London, 1805)Fire in Saint-Domingo 1791, German copper engraving.
Warships in the bay, buildings burning and general chaos on shore, as the French military are chased from Saint Domingue, 1820.Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839.**“Even though the enemy was beaten, the victory didn’t seem to belong to us yet, and the danger became even greater in front of the resistance of the slaves and our exhaustion.” 1883, Albert Laporte
**In 1839, Africans being carried aboard La Amistad from Havana, Cuba, to Puerto Principe, Cuba, were led by fellow captive Joseph Cinqué in a revolt against their captors. Their transport from Africa to the Americas was illegal, and they were fraudulently described as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt, the Africans demanded to be returned home, but the ship’s navigator deceived them about their course, and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island, New York. The schooner was subsequently taken into custody by the United States Navy; and the Africans, who were deemed salvage from the vessel, were taken to Connecticut to be sold as slaves. There ensued a widely publicized court case about the ship and the legal status of the African captives. This incident figured prominently in abolitionism in the United States. On March 9 1840, Associate Justice Joseph Story delivered the Court’s decision. Article IX of Pinckney’s Treaty was ruled off topic since the Africans in question were never legal property. They were not criminals, as the U.S. Attorney’s Office argued, but, rather, “unlawfully kidnapped, and forcibly and wrongfully carried on board a certain vessel”. The surviving 36 Africans travelled back to Africa early in 1842. (wikipedia)
“A slave revolt is terrible because one cannot fire on them, since each man is worth at least 1,000 francs”, 1883, Albert Laporte.A slave revolt.A slave rebel from ‘Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam (between French Guiana and Guyana). from the year 1772, to 1777, by John Gabriel Stedman.
What Followed Slavery?
17 Comments
Kathrin Grotz
Hi, Could you give me a source concerning the Copper engraving of the Fire in St. Dominique 1791? In which Book could i find it? Tanks a Lot, Kathrin
its very pity, looking at how our these people treated our fathers and mothers. is it still happening in other forms? .Africans, please let us wake up from the slumber
Thank God slave trade is over,as a Nigerian by birth I needs an Afro-Brazilian presently as a wife whom I can help,to locate her roots back home in the south western Nigeria. Above all slave trade is in-human to we Africans.Thanks
Our African fore-fathers make a mistake to have sold us to slavery,and we the generation of Africans child reap the ugly reward.Thanks to African abolitionist who help us to conquered the European and American slave Masters,In such victory at last after 300 years of slavery.
I really like 5he stories and pictures that shows the black slaves,please show me more send me new updates and other slave histories of my slave brothers n sisters thank you,
I thought that the article was well planned and to continue with the history of slavery. I am 67yrs old the school never gave us Black History only on American History. We did read about President Lincoln and George Washington, but nothing on the life the slaves endured while slaves. The article was right to the point and the pictures enhanced the article more.
Comment here …i just think our forefathers suffered,i just can’t believe that those European made us suffer,i really want to punch them on d face.But i can’t believe they hurt a human being like them,just becos we ve a different color of skin doesn’t mean we re animal or fowl dat u just buy nd kill.i really don’t think slavery can stop,even still date it still going on bt Thank God it nt like b4 nd i thank God am born at d right time not during SLAVERY.
Copper colored people are indigenous to what are now called the America’s. We were here thousands of years before the slave trade. According to a study by Emory University some 500,000 Africans arrived in the US.
I think to this date slavery is still going on. My professor, Chris Bonsignore, has helped very much in explaining what slavery is. He told me he has had first-hand experience. In not being the slave himself but instead being a slave master. His philosophy behind it on why it was such a cruel era and time period for African Americans made very much sense. He although may have been a slave master like George Washington he now practices what he preaches; treating everyone equally.
I hate Slavery, and those who are doing this till now, are doing violence, against God. Thank to God created me, and I have born when slavery has been abolished.Although to some extent is still going on to some countries.
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Kathrin Grotz
Hi, Could you give me a source concerning the Copper engraving of the Fire in St. Dominique 1791? In which Book could i find it? Tanks a Lot, Kathrin
Randell Brantley
Details about where it is from can be found here: http://ntskg01.uni-trier.de/cgi-bin/wire.pl?Lang=en&Db=Slavery
angela ojugo
i thank god slavery is over and i pray that god’s holy spirit would continue to be amongst us in jesus name amen
NIYIGENA
Dear friend slavery not over , today in Libya there is big market of black people on person is 300$. thanks for your prayer.
gloria florian
i thank god that slavery is over and i continue to ask god to give us a grcious life when we are still on earth. thanks alot.
Ayo David
its very pity, looking at how our these people treated our fathers and mothers. is it still happening in other forms? .Africans, please let us wake up from the slumber
OLATOKUN KEHINDE
Thank God slave trade is over,as a Nigerian by birth I needs an Afro-Brazilian presently as a wife whom I can help,to locate her roots back home in the south western Nigeria. Above all slave trade is in-human to we Africans.Thanks
OLAYOKUN KEHINDE
Our African fore-fathers make a mistake to have sold us to slavery,and we the generation of Africans child reap the ugly reward.Thanks to African abolitionist who help us to conquered the European and American slave Masters,In such victory at last after 300 years of slavery.
JohnnyThomas
I really like 5he stories and pictures that shows the black slaves,please show me more send me new updates and other slave histories of my slave brothers n sisters thank you,
Patricia Adeleke
I thought that the article was well planned and to continue with the history of slavery. I am 67yrs old the school never gave us Black History only on American History. We did read about President Lincoln and George Washington, but nothing on the life the slaves endured while slaves. The article was right to the point and the pictures enhanced the article more.
Musonda
I Don’t think slave trade is over. Its just the system that has Change.
adetoun
Comment here …i just think our forefathers suffered,i just can’t believe that those European made us suffer,i really want to punch them on d face.But i can’t believe they hurt a human being like them,just becos we ve a different color of skin doesn’t mean we re animal or fowl dat u just buy nd kill.i really don’t think slavery can stop,even still date it still going on bt Thank God it nt like b4 nd i thank God am born at d right time not during SLAVERY.
Tony
Copper colored people are indigenous to what are now called the America’s. We were here thousands of years before the slave trade. According to a study by Emory University some 500,000 Africans arrived in the US.
David Boswell
HELL ON ?
Mesandaie
I think to this date slavery is still going on. My professor, Chris Bonsignore, has helped very much in explaining what slavery is. He told me he has had first-hand experience. In not being the slave himself but instead being a slave master. His philosophy behind it on why it was such a cruel era and time period for African Americans made very much sense. He although may have been a slave master like George Washington he now practices what he preaches; treating everyone equally.
Paul
I hate Slavery, and those who are doing this till now, are doing violence, against God. Thank to God created me, and I have born when slavery has been abolished.Although to some extent is still going on to some countries.
Christianah
god bless each and every one of you, these pictures really hurt to see…