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Sebehr Pasha, The
Slave
King (Print)
The East African
slave
trade
: Rescued female slaves and children questioned on board a British ship of
A
slave
ship (?) (Painting)
The
Slave
Ship 'Vigilante' (Print)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO - African,
slave
, author, abolitionist" (Sculpture)
Slave
Emancipation Society medallion (Medallion)
An Arab
Slave
Master (Print)
Victims of Portuguese
Slave
Hunters (Print)
The Cutter HMS 'Daphne' Capturing a
Slave
Dhow off Bora (Print)
Slave
in chains (Painting)
'Black Joke' engaging the Spanish
slave
brig 'Almirante' in the Bight of Benin, 1 Feb 1829 (Print)
Plan and Sections of a
Slave
Ship [the 'Brooks' sometimes 'Brookes'] (Print)
'
Slave
on Deck' (Drawing)
Slave
traffic (Drawing)
Rev. John Newton (Print)
Flag of African Slaver (Flag)
Ministry of Marine life saving medal (Lifesaving award)
Kneeling figure of an enslaved African (Statuette)
Case lid
Case base
Representation of the brig Vigilante from Nantes, a vessel employed in the
Slave
Trade
which was captured
Snuff box (Snuff box)
Manilla
Thomas Clarkson, 1760-1846 (Print)
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