Town Hall Antislavery Meeting, 1838
Image: Report of The Birmingham Antislavery Society
For more details on Birmingham antislavery, follow the link below to 'Campaigning for Social Justice'
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Trinidad
'Costume Mastinique', from the album 'Types of Races of Mankind', 1870s, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Trinidad
'Carnival Dress', from the album 'Types of Races of Mankind', 1870s, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Trinidad
'Woman from Calcutta', from the album 'Types of Races of Mankind', 1870s, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Trinidad
Originally captioned 'Chinese, born at Trinidad' from the album 'Types of Races of Mankind', 1870s, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
The title page of an original 1852 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
'Uncle Toms Cabin' (1852): Eliza's Escape.
Image from an original 1852 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Eliza escapes with her child across a frozen river from slave catchers.
Unveiling of Sturge Statue, 1862
Image: Engraving of statue published in the 'Illustrated Times'(1862).
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham.
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Wall Plaque from Westfield Road, Edgbaston
This cast iron plaque, one of a set of three, was attached to a wall along a footpath in Westfield Road, Edgbaston, listing plants, supplied by Barr & Son, that were planted there between 1884 and 1897. ...
Watercolour depicting East Indian Labourers, by Jeanne Borde
In 1903, Jeanne Borde's watercolour of East Indian Labourers was used on the cover of Brandon Head’s book, The Food of Gods.1
1 Brandon Head, The Food of Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa (1903)
Watercolour depicting Harvesting Cocoa Pods, by Jeanne Borde
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery’s collections include artwork associated with Cadbury during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest images are a group of watercolours produced ...
Watercolour of gypsies camped near Bromford Forge by Joseph Barber
Weoley Castle Rent Strike
Newscutting regarding the Weoley Castle women rent strikers, from the Evening Despatch.
William Morgan
According to 'Civilising Subjects' (2002) by Catherine Hall, William Morgan, "trained as a solicitor, and practiced in Birmingham. From an early age he was engaged with missionary and abolitionist ventures, ...
Women's Cycling Shorts
Shorts like this were known as 'rational dress' because they were designed around function rather than fashion. Edgbastonia magazine printed articles about this development in women's dress in 1900.