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Abaché and Kossola, c. 1914 - Two Survivors of Clotilda and Founders of Africatown
Abaché and Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Both Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, were originally from present-day Benin, where they...
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Oluale Kossola (Cudjo Lewis), c. 1914 - Survivor of the Clotilda and a Founder of Africatown
Oluale Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Kossola (c. 1841-1935), later known as Cudjo Lewis, a Yoruba man of what is now Benin, was abducted by slavers in April 1860 and secretly...
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Wreckage of the Slave Ship Clotilda, c. 1914
Wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. The "wreckage," as pictured here, would be the dark line of wood appearing out of the water, not the boat on shore...
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Apotheosis by Giovanni Guida
A painting on canvas titled Apotheosis by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.
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Dionysus by Giovanni Guida
A painting on canvas titled Dionysus by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.
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Assassination of Louis I of Orléans
Murder of the Duke of Orléans, illumination on parchment by the Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre, included in Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique, folio 52, Bruges, c. 1470-1480. During a power struggle for the throne of France...
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Soluch Concentration Camp in Libya
A route within the Soluch (Suluq) concentration camp, which had circa 20.123 Libyan prisoners by 1931. Soluch is one of 19 concentration camps established by the Italian authorities on the orders of General Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955), who...
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Use of the Racist Song 'Faccetta Nera' in an Advertisement
In 1935, Renato Micheli composed the song 'Faccetta Nera' (Pretty/little black face) to commemorate the invasion of Ethiopia. The lyrics recount the liberation of a young Ethiopian woman from slavery by a fascist Blackshirt. This march, very...
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A Painting of the Battle of Gondar (1941)
Ethiopian painting depicting the Battle of Gondar (13–27 November 1941) during the last stages of the East African Campaign in WWII. After the fall of Amba Alagi in May 1941 and Jimma in July, Gondar was the last of the major strongholds...
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Haile Selassie During the Liberation of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie (1892-1975), Emperor of Abyssinia, with Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford (left, 1882-1972) and Colonel Orde Wingate (right, 1903-1944) in Dambacha Fort, after it had been captured, 15 April 1941.
