Title

Slave Gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi Marsh...1876. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Slave Gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi Marsh, from a sketch by Lieutenant Cameron in Central Africa, 1876. 'The painful march of a slave gang, two or three score wretched women all tied together by knotted ropes, all heavily laden and driven on by the whip, is a very sad scene for the humane spectator to behold'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A81_204

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Rights managed

Available size

46,0Mb (4,1Mb) / 16,5in x 10,8in / 4960 x 3244 (300dpi)

Keywords

Africa female carrying women woman people black male man men walking arts body bodies exploration art guy continent British feet foot color African captive rope ropes captivity cruelty location century Britain exploring prisoner newspapers press barefoot print concept prisoners B&W full length full-length slavery tied up bare feet cruel engraved engraving slave slaves captives Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News slave trade the body ILN newspaper Unknown enslaved person enslaved people 19th-century Verney Lovett Cameron Cameron Verney Lovett