1. Britain, sugar and slavery

2.  Manillas were used extensively as currency in West Africa from the 15th to the 20th century. During the Transatlantic slave trade manillas were a frequent medium of exchange for slaves. Af1954,23.1578. Image © the trustees of the British Museum.

3.  The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil. She only sulks -- go lash her to her toil.' Engraving c.1800 (ZBA2588). Image © National Maritime Museum

4.  Interior of a sugar boiling house at Wetherall's in Antigua, by William Clark, London 1823. Image © British Library

5.  Tom Sugar Cane, G. Spratt, 1830. Described as a 'West Indian', is the caricature of a British sugar planter who has settled in Jamaica to make his fortune. Sitting on a barrel of molasses in front of his sugar plantation, Tom's body is constructed with the articles of his trade: a barrel of Jamaica rum forms his torso while coned sugar loaves denote his arms and thighs. He holds a cane in one hand and a beverage in another while enslaved Africans are depicted in the background working in the fields. Image Number 010359. Image © Museum of London

6.  Anonymous oil painting in a carved and gilt wooden frame entitled 'A Family of Three at Tea', attributed to Richard Collins. Great Britain, ca. 1727. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.