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- The Island of Goree, 1806
- Poster of Barack Obama: 'Be The Change, January 20th 2009'
- 'Portrait of Sir John Hawkins, (1532 - 95)'
- Portrait of Nancy Burns
- Policemen and revellers at the Notting Hill Carnival, 1990s
- Leg Irons
- Joy Gardner Campaign handbill, 1993
- Glass Bottle
- Engraving of Ira Aldridge
- Earthenware sugar loaf mould, c1670
- Disabled plant seller, about 1800
- Chocolate pot, c1760
- 'African hospitality'
- Copy letter to the Bristol slave trader, Michael Becher, June 23, 1753
- $150 Reward Poster
- Daily Occurrences Book, Golden Rock Plantation, Nevis, 1776
- Female Negro Slave, with a weight chained to her ankle
- 'Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua'
- Ownership Manacle (lock and key)
- 'Rosa ordered to be flogged'
- Silver whip
- Calypso Rum bottle, about 1970
- Racist advert for Pear's soap
- An interior view of a Jamaica house of correction'
- Ku Klux Klan Costume
- Racist sticker produced by the British Movement, 1976
- Outposts of Empire: Barbados. By John Vickery, 1937
- TUC book on racism in the workplace, 1983
- 'Rock Against Racism' concert programme, c1978
- Caribbean Labour solidarity newsletter, 1983
- Racist graffiti on a brick wall, 1957-60, photograph by Henry Grant
- De'Ah, a maid, about 1900
- Newly released captives on board HMS London
- 'Slavery in Zanzibar', about 1890
- Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean
- Bunce Island, Sierra Leone
- Bust of an enslaved African in chains, manufactured by W.T. Copeland, after 1847
- To the friends of Negro emancipation
- Abolition of slavery in Jamaica
- Slave Trade Abolished by Great Britain, 1807, medal
- Portrait of William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)
- Portrait of Thomas Clarkson (1760 - 1846)
- Frontis-piece of Ignatius Sancho
- Frontis-piece of Olaudah Equiano
- Abolition Seal
- Abolition commemorative token
- Box, possibly for tobacco
- Spelter bust of Uncle Tom
- Octagonal Transferware Plate
- Advertising Bill for Abolition
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- Abolition Campaign medallion
- Abolition campaign Sugar bowl, 1825
- Curved plaque made from decorated whale jawbone
- Tapestry, 19th century
- Wilberforce family Bible
- Anti-slavery Jasperware medallion
- Learning is Wealth
- A Negroes Dance in the Island of St Dominica, 1773-1779
- Handcuffs
- Nancy Burns' Headscarf
- 'Trelawny Town, the chief residence of the Maroons'
- Toussaint L'Ouverture, Chief of the French Rebels in St. Domingue
- 'Run away... Jack' advertisement
- Leonard Parkinson, captain of the Maroons
- Machete
- 'A negro hung alive by the ribs to a gallows'
- 'A rebel negro armed and on his guard'
- Carved wooden figure
- 'Pacification with the Maroon Negroes'
- John Canoe (Jonkonnu, JonKanoo) Dancers, Jamaica
- John Canoe Dancers, Jamaica, 1837
- John Canoe (Jonkonnu, JonKanoo) Costume, Jamaica, 1837
- John Canoe (Jonkonnu, JonKanoo) Costume, Jamaica, 1838
- John Canoe (Jonkonnu, JonKanoo) Costume, Jamaica, 1838
- Slaves Conversing, Paramaribo, Surinam, 1839
- Milkmaid and Milk Sellers, Surinam, 1839
- Slave Festival, Surinam, 1839
- Dance, St. Vincent, West Indies, ca. 1775
- Slaves Fighting, Brazil, ca. 1820-24
- Festival of Our Lady of the Rosary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1770s
- Dance or Festival, Havana, Cuba, ca. 1866
- Stick Fighting, Dominica, West Indies, 1779
- Capoeira Dance, Brazil, 1830s
- Georgian House - Pantry
- The Georgian House - Exterior
- The Georgian House - Library
- 'Slave Trade, 1791'
- Scrimshaw Walrus tusk depicting European Slave fort
- 'Horse and Dog Trim'
- Charicature by James Gillray
- Branding iron
- Surgical instrument set
- 'Slave in Chains'
- Rum bottle
- Model of the Brookes, slave ship
- Iron neck ring
- HM Brig 'Acorn', 16 guns, in chase of the piratical slaver 'Gabriel', 1841
- Description of a slave ship, c.1788
- 'Sale of slaves by auction'
- 'Cat o'nine tails'
- Punishment collar
- 'Separation of families'
- Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (copy)
- Slave sale poster, 1829
- The family of Sir William Young
- Pearlware jug depicting a boxing match
- Sugar Crushing Mill, 1700s
- The Sun Newspaper, 15 December 1800
- List of Negroes and Stock, Thomas Mill's plantation, 1750 & 1752
- Plantation Token, 1688
- Painting of Billy Waters, 1815
- Job, son of Solliman Dgiallo, High Priest of Bonda in the Country of Foota, Africa
- Snuffbox, c.1740
- Engraved commemorative coin, the Amacree, 1788
- Receipt
- Sugar Cane
- The Thomas King entering London Docks, 1827, by William John Huggins (1781-1845)
- A View of Nevis from St. Kitts
- Account book for the Snow, Molly, a slave ship
- Yoke
- Sugar nippers
- Scene on the coast of Africa
- Musket
- 'Daru off Elmina Castle'
- Taste in High Life
- Small Manillas
- Cowrie-shell belt
- Ceremonial Headdress
- Beads
- Baule comb
- Bead bracelets
- Benin Leopard
- Bow lyre
- Asante weights for gold dust
- Asante sword and sheath
- Asante stool
- Asante cosmetic pots
- Asante boxes for gold dust
- Adala Anklets
- Welt River Harp
- 'Talking' drum from the Asante of Ghana
- Small drum with stick
- Small drum
- Mask of the Sande Society from the Mende of Sierra Leone
- Head of an 'Oba' from the Edo of Benin
- Drum from Haiti
- Calabash Guitar
- Calabash Bottle
- Guinea Coin, 1686
- Ivory Tobacco Rasp, 1600s
- Engraving of the City of Loango
- Brass Plaque, Edo Peoples, Benin, Nigeria
- Wrought Iron Gong
- Wooden Oboe or Algiata, Northern Nigeria
- Ivory bracelet
- Ivory trade token
- King Manilla
Backgrounds
- Windrush
- The Human Zoo
- Racially Motivated Crimes
- Apartheid
- Colonisation and changes to Africa
- Campaigning against Slavery
- Nanny and the Maroons
- Haiti
- Bussa and Christmas Rebellions
- Tacky's Rebellion
- Personal Accounts
- Capture and Enslavement
- Slave forts case study
- First Hand Acccounts
- Economics and the Accumulation of Wealth
- Bristol
- London
- Liverpool
- Hull
- The Zong
- Introduction To Various African Kingdoms
- The Lost Libraries Of Timbuktu
- Portugal Case Study
- Spain Case Study
- Netherlands Case Study
- France Case Study
Maps
- Map of Africa
- Map of Holland
- Map of Portugal
- Map of Ethiopia
- Map of Jamaica
- Map of Hispanola
- Map of Africae
- Map of Spain
- Map of North Africa
- Map of France
Events
- Barack Obama elected US President
- Bicentenary anniversary of the British Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
- News of ship carrying child slaves
- Mali and Cote d’Ivoire sign child trafficking treaty
- Togo and Benin pass legislation on trafficking children
- Apartheid ban lifted (South Africa)
- Diane Abbott and Bernie Grant become MPs
- Brixton Riots
- Race Relations Act enforced (Britain)
- Trevor McDonald becomes Britain’s first Black newsreader
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
- Assassination of Malcolm X
- Voting Rights Act in the United States is passed
- Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment
- Assassination of President J.F. Kennedy
- American Civil Rights Act is passed
- Saudi Arabia compensates owners
- Nat King Cole Show debut
- Ethiopia abolishes slavery
- World War II
- Marian Anderson open air concert
- Slavery is abolished in Saudi Arabia
- Paul Robeson debut as bass-baritone
- Louis Armstrong - Hot Five / Hot Seven
- Abolition of slavery in colonies
- 'Shuffle Along' musical
- Mamie Smith records the first major 'race record'
- World War One
- First written blues published
- "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" composed
- The Golliwog
- Slavery is abolished in Brazil
- Slavery is abolished in Cuba
- Fisk Jubilee singers perform in Europe
- Fisk Jubilee Singers tour along the Underground Railroad Path
- 1.5 million enslaved people in Brazil
- Portugal abolishes the slave trade
- Uprising by Black Jamaicans in Morant Bay
- Slavery is abolished in America
- American Civil War
- The Fugitive Slave Law (US)
- Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
- Emancipation of enslaved Africans by the French
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- US Supreme Court upholds freedom of those in 'Amistad' case
- J.M.W. Turner's painting 'The Slave Ship' put on display
- Enslaved Africans revolt on board 'Amistad'
- Apprenticeship scheme fails
- Act for the Abolition of Slavery passed as law throughout British Empire
- Revolt against apprenticeship on St Kitts
- Bill passed for Emancipation Act
- The Great Reform Act
- The Baptist War and other rebellions
- Two million enslaved Africans in the US
- Hanover Slave Rebellion in Jamaica
- Society for the Migration and Gradual Abolition of Slavery
- Uprising of enslaved Africans in Demerara
- The Spanish abolish the slave trade
- Frederick Douglas
- Slave Registration Act
- Bussa’s rebellion in Barbados
- Congress of Vienna
- British West Africa Squadron established
- US ban trade in slaves from Africa
- Britain declares Sierra Leone a crown colony
- British Act of Parliament to abolish transatlantic slave trade
- Commons passes Bill for Abolition; Lords reject
- The Dutch abolish the slave trade
- St Domingue renamed Haiti
- Napoleonic Wars
- Denmark abolishes transatlantic slave trade
- Toussaint L’Ouverture dies
- First West India dock opens
- Denmark abolishes the slave trade
- Toussaint L’Ouverture is taken prisoner
- Napoleon sends troops to re-establish slavery
- Toussaint L’Ouverture gains control of St Domingue
- Wilberforce loses a motion to abolish the slave trade
- John Stedman publishes account of his experiences
- Napoleon restores slavery in the French colonies
- St Vincent expels Caribs from the island
- Rebellion in St Vincent
- Second Maroon War in Jamaica
- French revolutionary government abolishes slavery
- French Revolutionary War
- Commons votes to abolish slave trade; Lords rejects
- William Wilberforce presents first abolition bill to the Commons
- Slave uprising in St Domingue starts revolution
- William Wilberforce delivers abolition speech
- French Revolution
- Olaudah Equiano publishes autobiography
- The Amacree Coin
- The Dolben Act
- William Pitt introduces Bill to abolish the slave trade
- Thomas Clarkson writes pamphlet 'A Summary View of the Slave Trade'
- Ottabah Cuguoano publishes first abolitionist book in English by an African
- Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade is set up
- Thomas Clarkson essay on slavery published
- Zong insurance case heard
- The Zong
- The House of Commons appoints a Committee to investigate the British slave trade
- Slavery is declared illegal on Scottish soil
- American War of Independence
- Royal Commission set up regarding slave trade
- John Wesley denounces slavery
- John Stedman
- Somerset case ruling
- Granville Sharpe collects evidence
- Uprising by enslaved Africans in Jamaica
- Treaty of Paris
- Dutch treaty with escaped enslaved Africans
- Revolt of enslaved Africans in Nevis
- Rebellion of Enslaved Africans in Jamaica
- Thomas Clarkson
- William Wilberforce
- Seven Years' War
- Royal African Company is dissolved
- Revolt of enslaved Africans in Martinique
- Revolt of enslaved Africans aboard 'King David'
- Revolt of enslaved Africans in Jamaica
- Olaudah Equiano
- Tackey’s rebellion
- First Maroon War
- Britain becomes the biggest slave trading country
- Ignatius Sancho
- Rise of the Kingdom of Dahomey
- Robinson Crusoe
- Britain gains all of St Kitts
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Asante empire unites under Osei Tutu
- 80% of Caribbean residents are enslaved Africans
- Act of Parliament legalises British slave trade
- Conspiracy to massacre plantation owners discovered
- Major revolt by enslaved Africans in Jamaica
- British Parliament issues new charter to Royal African Company
- Enslaved African rebellion
- Enslaved African conspiracy in Jamaica is uncovered
- Enslaved Africans revolt in St Domingue
- Mutiny by enslaved Africans reported
- Enslaved Africans executed
- Royal Africa Company formed to regulate trade in enslaved Africans
- Lobby’s rebellion in Jamaica
- Juan de Bolas surrenders to British
- Enslaved Africans revolt in Guadeloupe
- British capture Jamaica from Spain
- First coffee house established in Britain.
- Dutch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope
- Guinea Company founded in London
- Enslaved Africans revolt on Barbados
- Sugar in Barbados
- Slave ship 'Desire' launched; American slave trade begins
- Charles I grants London merchants monopoly trade with Guinea
- Queen Nzinga organises state of Matamba; former enslaved Africans can be free in Ndongo
- First ship of enslaved Africans arrives at St Kitts
- British occupy Barbados
- Thomas Warner founds settlement on St Kitts
- Dutch West India Co. established
- Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America
- Beginning of the trade in enslaved Africans in Virginia
- British Crown allows the Guinea Company to trade with West Africa
- Up to 135,000 English go to the Caribbean
- Colony of Virginia is founded
- Dutch enter the trade
- Elizabeth I expels African people
- Dutch end Portuguese monopoly
- Fall of the Songhay Kingdom
- Spanish Armada
- The crowns of Portugal and Spain unite
- Seville, Spain, has 5000 African residents
- John Hawkins voyages to Sierra Leone
- Sir John Hawkins makes first known British slave trading voyage to Africa
- First enslaved Africans are brought to England
- Rebellion of enslaved Africans in Hispaniola
- Approximately 10,000 enslaved Africans resident in Lisbon
- Frey Bartolomé de las Casas advises that Africans would be better suited to work the plantations
- Ferdinand of Spain orders enslaved Africans to be imported
- Reign of Henry VIII, King of England
- King Afonso I opposes slave traders
- First enslaved Africans in the Americas
- The Treaty of Tordesillas
- Columbus lands in the Bahamas
- Canary Islands begin to produce sugar using enslaved Africans
- Portuguese build slave fortress
- Sugar cultivated by African slaves in Madeira
- The Kingdom of Benin expands
- Prince Henry of Portugal captures 235 Africans
- Transatlantic slave trade
- Portuguese take 10 African captives to Portugal
- Portugal takes the Azores and explores the Gold Coast
- Understanding Slavery Timeline
- Battle of Hastings
- Foundation of the Kingdom of Benin, West Africa
- Shona people establish the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe
- The Magna Carta is signed
- Rise and expansion of the Kingdom of Mali
- The Black Death in Europe