A Digital History of the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Illustrations such as this about the brutality of slave transport played an important role in maintaining high levels of public outrage in Britain about the mistreatment of slaves, and the evils of slavery. The Illustrated London News, 20 June 1857. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
Some men liberated by the British joined the royal navy. The Illustrated London News, 20 June 1857. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
Many of the men and women liberated from the slave ships were apprenticed to workshops in Jamaica. They were not repatriated. The Illustrated London News, 20 June 1857. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
Depictions of freed men and women elicited sympathy for the campaign among the British public. The Illustrated London News, 20 June 1857. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
Illustrations of captured slave ships attested to the success of the British Navy in their efforts to suppress the slave trade. The Illustrated London News, 20 June 1857. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
The Bombardment of Canton was one of the opening campaigns of the Second Opium War. This was an effort on the part of the British to open Chinese markets to foreign trade, including trade in opium, which the Chinese Government was trying to suppress. The Illustrated London News, 17 January 1857. Courtesy of University of […]
The British Foreign Office’s correspondence on the suppression of the slave trade extended as far as the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople. The Illustrated London News, 8 November 1856. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
This was part of a series of illustrations of slave life in the South. This black flute player clearly played an important part in the musical life of Charleston. The Illustrated London News, 27 September 1856. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
This was part of a series of illustrations of slave life in the South. The man in the background holds the future of these women and children in his hands. The Illustrated London News, 27 September 1856. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
At the crossroads of the slaveholding south and the largely free north, Baltimore emerged as an Industrial city that captured both potentialities of a slave-holding city and a free, industrial city. The Illustrated London News, 27 September 1856. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.
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