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1. A bronze plaque
showing three warriors from Benin, West Africa.
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2. Africa ca 900-1500.
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3. The great mosque
at Jenne, one of the most important commercial centers controlled by the
empire of Mali in the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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4. The naturalistic
brass head, which dates to the thirteenth century, conveys the remarkable
power of life art.
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5. This slave-auction
notice relates to a group of slaves whose ship had stopped at Charleston,
South Carolina, and then landed elsewhere in the region to auction its
human carge.
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6. Loading plan
for the main decks of the 320ton slave ship Brookes. The Brookes
was only 25 feet wide and 100 feet long, but as many as 609 slaves were
crammed on board. The average space allowed each person was only
about 78 inches by 16 inches.
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7. Slavery lasted
longer in Brazil than in any other nation on the American continent.
Anti-slavery groups circulated prints such as this one published in France
to illustrate the brutality of slave life in Brazil.
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8. Imperial expansion
in Africa up to 1880.
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