Images

The industrial area dedicated to the salting of fish and the production of the famous fish sauce (garum) in Baelo Claudia in southern Spain. The large basins dug into the ground served to pile up the pieces of fish to be salted. The fish...

An illustration from 1906 showing the discovery of Guy Fawkes beneath Westminster Palace and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot when he and his Catholic co-conspirators intended to blow up the English Parliament and James I of England (r. 1603-1625...

An 18th-century woodcut advertisement for Virginia tobacco. The image shows child slaves working on a tobacco plantation. (British Museum, London)

An 1861 oil painting titled 'Slaves Waiting for Sale' by Eyre Crowe (1824-1910). Richmond, Virginia. (Heinz Collection, Washington D.C.)

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).

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...

Map of Mississippian and Related Cultures in North America

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...

A scene showing the daily tasks of slaves on a Virginian tobacco plantation. Painted c. 1670.

A diagram showing the stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788.