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DescriptionSlavezanzibar2.JPG	English: Photograph of an enslaved boy in Zanzibar. National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, London, England, from the Michael Graham-Stewart collection. Description from source: This extraordinary lantern slide is inscribed: ‘An Arab master’s punishment for a slight offence. The log weighed 32 pounds, and the boy could only move by carrying it on his head. An actual photograph taken by one of our missionaries.’. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful weapon in the abolitionist arsenal. Photographic images of slavery provided vivid and irrefutable evidence of the ongoing cruelty of the East African and Indian Ocean trades. They were often used as the basis for engravings reproduced in popular journals such as ‘The Graphic’ and ‘The Illustrated London News’.
Date	circa 1890 date QS:P, 1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/262003.html (Original source listed, now a broken link: http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART38118.html. Alternative source as originally listed, but note that its description of the image includes theories not included in the original source: http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/io/cou/sc-zan.html.)
Author	Unknown photographer

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current	03:35, 19 February 2014	683 × 1,024 (68 KB)	Jbarta	higher resolution
	20:21, 21 September 2011	242 × 283 (27 KB)	Cropbot	upload cropped version, operated by User:Finavon. Summary: border cropped
	08:44, 21 April 2009	250 × 296 (18 KB)	File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)	{{BotMoveToCommons\|en.wikipedia\|year={{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\|month={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}\|day={{subst:CURRENTDAY}}}} {{Information \|Description={{en\|Photograph of a slave boy in Zanzibar. Taken c.1890. Unknown photographer. National Maritime Museum, Lo