The Lash'. Card showing bound African American slave being whipped. Slaves were a common sight in North America up until the Emancipation...
Slave standing on the pillory - undated - Photographer: Philipp Kester - Vintage property of ullstein bild
Domestic punishment of slaves on a Brazilian sugar farm, Brazil. From the Illustrated London News - 29th March 1845.
Colorized, full-length profile shot of an escaped slave, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other devices used to abuse slaves, New York,...
The Exhausted Slave Whipped. 'But woe to all, both old and young,/Women and men, or strong or weak,/Worn out or fresh, those gangs among, That dare...
Slave chains for feet brought back by Livingstone, These chains are part of a set brought from Africa by David Livingstone. They consist of four...
'Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave', 1806. The slave is tied from a branch of a tree in an obvious state of distress and pain. In the background...
The Hunted Slaves, 1862. This depicts a fugitive enslaved man and woman beset by three mastiff dogs in a marshy landscape. On the right side of the...
Coloured slaves being whipped, Brazil, engraving by Debret from Bresil, by Ferdinand Denis, Colombie et Guyanes, by Famin, L'Univers Pittoresque,...
Wrought iron collar with a three inch locking device and a three inch key. The collar is made up of two pieces of iron attached with a hinged, chain...
Two iron shackles consisting of iron loops joined together by a length of iron chain. The iron is heavily rusted. These would have been used to...
Slave whipped by a settler, Jamaica, illustration by George Cruikshank from Teatro universale, Raccolta enciclopedica e scenografica, No 595,...