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18th-Century Advertisement for Virginia Tobacco
An 18th-century woodcut advertisement for Virginia tobacco. The image shows child slaves working on a tobacco plantation. (British Museum, London)
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Slaves Waiting for Sale by Eyre Crowe
An 1861 oil painting titled 'Slaves Waiting for Sale' by Eyre Crowe (1824-1910). Richmond, Virginia. (Heinz Collection, Washington D.C.)
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Willoughby Disk, Moundville
The Willoughby Disk, an engraved stone disk from Moundville, Hale County, Alabama, USA. The site dates to c. 1100 - c. 1450 CE. (Jones Archaeological Museum, Moundville).
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Moundville Archaeological Site Looking Toward Mound A
An image from the Moundville Archaeological Park in Alabama, USA, looking from the top of Mound B toward Mound A and the surrounding plaza. Moundville is the modern name for the ancient Native American city which developed at this site and...
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Map of Mississippian and Related Cultures
Map of Mississippian and Related Cultures in North America
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Monks Mound at Cahokia
Monks Mound at Cahokia. The present-day name comes from a group of Trappist Monks who lived nearby in the 18th and 19th centuries. No one knows what the mound's name was in antiquity when the city of Cahokia flourished between c. 600-c. 1350...
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Daily Slave Life on a Tobacco Plantation
A scene showing the daily tasks of slaves on a Virginian tobacco plantation. Painted c. 1670.
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Diagram of the Stowage of Slaves on a Slave Ship
A diagram showing the stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788.
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Hero Vanquishes Lion (Khorsabad)
Colossal figure in the facade of the palace of Sargon II in Dur-Sharrukin. Drawing Flandin PL 41 by Paul-Emile Botta (1802-1870 CE), c. 1849 CE.
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Cardo Maximus of Italica, Spain
The Cardo Maximus (north-south street) of Italica, an archaeological site located in modern-day Santiponce, 9 kilometres (5.5 miles) north of Seville in Spain.
