Slavery stock illustrations

Steel engraving from 1881 with great details

Vector illustration abstract of strong hands and arms breaking the chains. Download includes Illustrator 10 eps with transparencies, high resolution jpg and png file. See my portfolio for similar concepts.

Vintage engraving of a Mother and daughter sold at Slave Auction, Southern USA, 19th Century

Slaves walking with garden tools. Racist illustration from 19th Century, showing captives enjoying their life as opposed to true reality of life on the Plantation.

Vintage engraving shows a crowd of African men, women, and children who had been rescued by the British navy from a slaving vessel in 1884. Two British sailors from the HMS Undine are seen in the background. Although the slave trade was abolished in many countries during the 19th century, slave trading continued in other countries.

African Americans harvesting cotton. Illustration originally published in Hesse-Wartegg's "Nord Amerika", swedish edition published in 1880. The image is currently in public domain.

Vintage engraving of African Americans harvesting and packing of cotton in Louisiana. Ferdinand Hirts Geographische Bildertafeln,1886.

Vintage engraving of Workers picking cotton, Louisiana, 19th Century

African slaves arrive in Rhode Island in Colonial America. Illustration published in The New Eclectic History of the United States by M. E. Thalheimer (American Book Company; New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago) in 1881 and 1890. Copyright expired; artwork is in Public Domain.

Vintage illustration represents the emancipation of Southern slaves at the end of the American Civil War. This image contrasts the life of a slave and that of a free man's life.

Hands breaking chain shackle handcuffs in a vintage woodcut revolution propaganda poster style. Concept for freedom.

Vintage engraving of Hunting a runaway slave, Southern USA, 19th Century. African american man running through long grass chased by men on horseback with dogs

Freedom and Human Rights concept. Broken Shackles with Fist Raised Up Linear Icon. Chain of slavery Damaged. National Freedom Day Juneteenth. Editable stroke. Vector illustration.

Hands breaking chain shackle handcuffs in a vintage woodcut revolution propaganda poster style. Concept for freedom.

Vintage illustration features The Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The painting shows a large family of black slaves, fugitives from the south, being sheltered from the snow by Levi Coffin and his wife. The Quaker family helping the slaves details two common stereotypes about the underground railroad: helpless slaves and their heroic Quaker saviors.

A chain breaking freedom concept illustration in a vintage woodcut style

Antique black and white photograph of people from islands in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean; Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines and others: Sugar cane field, Cuba

Hands in metal chain shackle handcuffs in a vintage woodcut revolution propaganda poster style.

Brooks (or Brook, Brookes, or Bruz) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. Illustration from 19th century.

Illustration of a Region of Congo: transportation of negro slaves

Slavery in America - Sugar Cane Plantation

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Raising hands fist, breaking steel handcuffs, shackles chain. Rescue, hope, liberation, victory, fight, rebellion, protest concept. black African Americans slave Get free. Freedom day Sketch vector

Vintage illustration shows a group of four black men, possibly freedmen, ambushed by a posse of six armed whites in a cornfield. The Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in September 1850 allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without due process of law and prohibited anyone from aiding escaped fugitives or obstructing their recovery. The law threatened the safety of all blacks, slave and free, and forced many Northerners to become more defiant in their support of fugitives.

Black male hands in shackles. Slavery concept. Black person in bondage. Abolitionism. Flat vector illustration isolated on white background.

"Am I not a man and a brother?" An iconic anti-slavery illustration based upon the medallion produced by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787 as an important contribution to the movement for the Abolition of Slavery. (From "The Family Friend" published by S.W. Partridge & Co., London, 1875.) The abhorrent business of trading in slaves was outlawed in Britain in 1807.

Antique photograph of 19th century slaves working in a sugar plantation in Lousiana (Usa)

Benjamin F. Butler's Contraband Decision: Major General Benjamin Butler refused to return escaped slaves to slaveholders who supported the Confederacy.

Vintage engraving of Ancient Egyptians building a Pyramid

Vintage illustration features African Trinidadians playing music and dancing.

Vintage illustration features a group of African-Americans dancing in celebration for Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Cel-Liberation Day, an American holiday celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free. This marks the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African-Americans in the Confederacy.

Map with the journey of the Clotilda, the last American slave ship

Cotton harvest in South Carolina, USA. Wood engraving after a photograph, published in 1897.

Back view and profile of an African woman in the 1800s. Illustration published 1891. Source: Original edition is from my own archives. Copyright has expired and is in Public Domain.

Vintage engraving of a Plantation Master with whip at the Slave market, while a man begs not to be separated from his son and daughter. From the anti slavery story De planter brunel en zijne slaven asa en neno, by Henderikus Christophorus Schetsberg, Netherlands. 1858.

The diorama represents African-American life in freedom and in slavery. Vintage engraving circa late 19th century. Digital restoration by Pictore.

A slave market on the African coast in the 19th century. Wood engraving, published in 1855.

Building Pyramid in Egypt in ancient time use men to be slave the whole day,cartoon version,vector illustration

Facts for Farmers - Materials fror Land-owners about Domestic Animals, Gardens and Vineyards, Edited by Solon Robinson in Two Volumens New York, A.J.Johnson 1873

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, Hand with Chain and background

Hands in fists breaking a chain freedom concept design

From First Century of National Existence; The United States - 1873

Illustration from 19th century.

Groups of slaves waiting on the beach for the slave ship to come in and take them far away form their homes. A slave master is whipping two unfortunate men, adding to the misery of the poor people who are being held captive. From “The Cottager and Artisan” for 1891, published by The Religious Tract Society, London, with illustrations by various artists.

Abolition of slavery woman. Vector drawing.