The Slave Ship

[Eva Elisabeth]

Finally some pics (credit Wiki):

Slaves in chains, relief found at Smyrna (present day İzmir, Turkey), 200 AD:
   
Slaves working in a mine. Ancient Greece:
   
A contract from the Tang dynasty (618-907) that records the purchase of a 15 year-old slave for six bolts of plain silk and five Chinese coins:
   
13th century slave market in Yemen. Yemen officially abolished slavery in 1962:
   
Depiction of socage on the royal demesne in feudal England, ca. 1310. Socage is an aspect of serfdom, not usually included under the term "slavery" (but practically pretty much the same):
   
The work of the Mercedarians was in ransoming Christian slaves held in Muslim hands (1637):
   
Crimean Tatar raiders enslaved more than 1 million Eastern Europeans:
   
The main routes that were used to transport slaves across medieval Africa:
   
An 1852 Wallachian poster advertising an auction of Roma slaves in Bucharestm
   
British captain witnessing the miseries of the Christian slaves in Algiers, 1815: