Slavery Paintings & Art

My research found a wide array of art works depicting events centering on the slave trade.  These depictions can be found in Medieval art, Renaissance, Baroque art, and modern art into the 21st century with the works of such masters as Boris Vallego, and Frank Frazetta,  Partly because of sexual themes of the classical base of the art movements of the 18th and 19th centuries Orientalism helped establish much of the western cultural images of harems and slavery.

My purpose with this page is provide additional examples of these works and artists, beyond what has been used to illustrate the history page.  Many of the artworks used to illustrate these pages are drawn from the Orientalist Movement.  This over view is not intended to be comprehensive as there were hundreds and perhaps thousands of works created by Orientalist Movement, and other, artists.

I try to provide attribution to the original artist, as much and accurately as possible and for copyrighted material remain within fair uses boundaries, even in those works that have been significantly modified.

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