1. Modern map showing major slaving routes from Africa to Old and New Worlds.

2. Captioned, "Slavers Revenging their Losses," shows a coffle of men, women, and children, led by Arab slavers; one of the guards is murdering a captive unable to keep up with the rest. These people were taken across Central Africa to the African east coast.

3. Shows crowded top deck of slave ship, ship's crew firing guns on slaves; some Africans diving overboard.

4. Transport des Negres dans les Colonies" (transport of blacks to the colonies) shows close-up of top deck of slaver with Africans and European sailors; barrier on deck separates African men and women.

5. Artist's reconstruction of "spoon" position in which slaves were kept in the hold of the French slaving vessel

7. Stowage of the British Slave Ship 'Brookes' under the Regulated Slave Trade, Act of 1788"; shows each deck and cross-sections of decks and "tight packing" of captives. One of the most famous images of the transatlantic slave trade. After the 1788 Regulation Act, the Brookes (also spelled Brooks) was allowed to carry 454 slaves, the approximate number shown in this illustration. However, in four earlier voyages (1781-86), she carried from 609 to 740 slaves so crowding was much worse than shown here; for example, in her 1782 voyage with 609 enslaved Africans, there were 351 men, 127 women, 90 boys, and 41 girls crammed into its decks

8. Line drawings showing how shackles were positioned on legs and wrists; drawn from originals in French museums.

9. Shows a man and woman (with child in arms) on auction block, surrounded by white men.

11. The sale of slaves by a planter whose business had failed; the slaves to be sold were inspected and scrutinized by prospective buyers The engraving shows a black woman (centre) being examined by white men while other Africans await sale, white auctioneers on the right.

12. Field gang of men and women "covering the seed"; white overseer on horseback; tin pan on stake on right is to scare crows from eating the seed. Crows consider cotton seed "a great delicacy," and the "common method of keeping them away... is suspending a tin pan between high stakes, which is beaten by a stone swinging on a cord"

13. Sugar Boiling House, Trinidad, ca.1830s The juice is conveyed in pipes from the mill to the boiling house.... Here it is converted through a succession of coppers. At each copper a Negro is placed to take off the scum as it rises, and when the temperature of that vessel has had its full effect, to remove it with a ladle into the next.. A white overseer/manager is in the centre foreground.

14. Men and women with long-handled hoes, guarded by overseers with whips. The slaves are called to work by the plantation bell at 6 in the morning, each person takes his hoe to the field under the supervision of overseers, either European or Creole; in a single line, they work in unison while chanting some African work song; the overseers occasionally use the whip to increase the work pace; at 11 the bell sounds, they take a meal, then resume their work until 6 in the evening