Artefact: 'A Negro Festival... in the Island of St. Vincent' This etching was made about 1800. It shows a festival on the Caribbean island of St Vincent.
Artefact: Bance Island, Sierra Leone This is a watercolour drawing of about 1805. It shows the slave fort on Bance Island at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River in West Africa.
Artefact: De This photograph was taken in about 1900, over 60 years after slavery was abolished in the British Empire, and 35 years after it ended in the United States.
Artefact: New Year This British
Artefact: Racist advert for Pear's soap Adverts for Pear
Artefact: 'Slavery in Zanzibar', about 1890 This is a photograph taken by a missionary and made into a glass lantern slide.
Artefact: Sugar-cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean This photograph shows workers cutting cane in about 1880.
Artefact: Carved wooden figure This figure is of an enslaved African breaking free of his chains in what may be seen as a symbolic gesture.