Slaves cutting the sugar cane on the Island of Antigua, 1823

British Library

Black power of the celebration of Juneteenth, now a national Holiday. 

Tasha Jolley

a group of men standing around a pile of fruit

Believed to be from the later 1800’s, at a cocoa bean plantation, location unknown. It's unknown if these images are of workers post-slavery abolishing in the colonies, or if the people picture are indeed slaves. 

Social History Archive

Polly Sadler

brown metal chain in close up photography

Hussain Badshah

Zulmaury Saavedra

a group of people standing next to each other

Figures gather in a stylized forest scene

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Aspects of Negro Life" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1934. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/634ad849-7832-309e-e040-e00a180639bb

The New York Public Library

man sitting on chair beside bed and near chair

1941 - Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama.

Child working labour walking on the street of Bangladesh and carrying a heavy luggage on his head.

Slavery