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London in the Late 18th Century Image of London in the Late 18th Century

View of the Thames Showing the Savoy, by William James (1765), Parham House, Sussex. 

London in the Late 18th Century Image of London in the Late 18th Century

View of the Thames Showing Westminster, by William James (1765), Parham House, Sussex

Igbo scarification Image of Igbo scarification

An Igbo man with facial marks of nobility known as ichi in G. T. Basden’s Among the Ibos of Nigeria (London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1921), 184.

Igbo scarification Image of Igbo scarification

A photo of a man with ichi marks in Northcote W. Thomas’s Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking People of Nigeria (London: Harrison and Sons, 1913), Plate XVII.

Ambrose Lace Image of Ambrose Lace

A letter from Ambrose Lace to Thomas Jones, regarding the two merchants from Calabar, dated 11 November 1773. Floyd E. Risvold Collection: American Expansion & Journey West, Spink Shreves Gallery, Dallas, Africa and Slavery, Lot 900.

Ambrose Lace Image of Ambrose Lace

“Calabar – Showing different wards: Creek Town, Duke Town, Old Town, Henshaw Town.”  Map of the Cross River Estuary, Calabar River (1820), Unknown Author.  

White and Black Abolitionists Image of White and Black Abolitionists

Anti-Slavery Medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood (1787), Wedgwood Manufactory, Art Institute Chicago. This medallion was adopted as the seal for the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

White and Black Abolitionists Image of White and Black Abolitionists

The Clarkson chest and its contents, Wisbech & Fenland Museum. Thomas Clarkson used the chest as a “travelling museum” in his campaign against the slave trade.

Josiah Wedgwood Image of Josiah Wedgwood

Portrait by Samuel William Reynolds (1841), National Portrait Gallery, London.

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