Creative
Creative Content
- Images
  Creative Images
  Browse millions of royalty-free images and photos, available in a variety of formats and styles, including exclusive visuals you won’t find anywhere else.
  See all creative images Top image searches
  Trending Image Searches
  Sky
  Cityscape
  Pakistan Flag
  Road
  Urine
  Love Birds
  Popular Image Categories
  Architecture
  Business And Finance
  Calendar
  Education
  Family
  Fitness And Wellness
- Videos
  Creative Videos
  Check out millions of royalty‑free videos, clips and footage available in 4K and HD, including exclusive visual content you won’t find anywhere else.
  See all creative videos Top video searches
  Trending Video Searches
  Fireworks
  Confetti
  Currency
  Outer Space
  Nature
  Popular Video Categories
  4K Videos
  Adventure
  Aerial
  Animation
  Beach
  Skylines And Cityscapes
- Illustrations
  Illustrations
  Discover millions of royalty‑free, exclusive illustrations in a variety of styles, from conceptual to contemporary, and more.
  See all illustrations
  Trending Illustration Searches
  Arrows
  Backgrounds
  Icons
  Textured
  Social Media
  Popular Illustration Categories
  Backgrounds
  Business And Finance
  Calendar
  Cartoons And Comics
  Education
  Emblem, Banner And Badges
- Vectors
  Vectors
  Explore millions of royalty‑free vectors in a variety of formats and styles, including exclusives you can only find on Getty Images.
  See all vectors
  Trending Vector Searches
  Infographic
  Popular Vector Categories
  Animals
  Backgrounds
  Comics
  Banners
  Emotions
  Family
- Music
  Music
  Explore Getty Images Music, powered by Triple Scoop Music’s library of original audio content, which includes music, sound effects, and royalty-free tracks.
  Discover music
Editorial
Editorial Content
- Images
  Editorial Images
  Explore the latest in news, sports, and entertainment coverage, featuring exclusive images that can’t be found anywhere else.
  See all editorial images
  Trending Image Searches
  Vaibhav Suryavanshi
  Virat Kohli
  Chennai Super Kings
  Rohit Sharma
  Ms Dhoni
  Shubman Gill
  Popular Image Categories
  Flag of India
  Bharat
  Indian General Elections 2024
  Indian Space Research Organisation
  Artificial Intelligence
  Temple
- Videos
  Editorial Videos
  Explore the latest in news, sports, and entertainment coverage, featuring exclusive videos that can’t be found anywhere else.
  See all editorial videos
  Trending Video Searches
  Dua Lipa
  Popular Video Categories
  Flag of India
  Bharat
  Indian General Elections 2024
  Indian Space Research Organisation
  Artificial Intelligence
  Temple
- News
  News
  Search the latest news photos & coverage of world events with high-quality images and video content, available in 4K & HD formats.
  Explore the latest news visuals
  Trending News Searches
  Mark Carney
  Donald Trump
  Pierre Poilievre
  Pahalgam Attack
  Pahalgam
  India
  Popular News Categories
  Narendra Modi
  Defence
  India
  China
  Gaza
  Pakistan
- Sports
  Sports
  From the sidelines to the pitch, check out the latest and greatest images and videos from must-see, global sports events.
  Explore the latest sports visuals
  Trending Sports Searches
  Vaibhav Suryavanshi
  Virat Kohli
  Chennai Super Kings
  Rohit Sharma
  Ms Dhoni
  Shubman Gill
  Popular Sports Categories
  Cricket
  Hockey
  Football
  Badminton
  Chess
  Kabaddi
- Entertainment
  Entertainment
  Check out the latest in entertainment, from the red carpet to centre stage, featuring celebrity coverage you can only get from us.
  Explore entertainment visuals
  Trending Entertainment Searches
  Blake Lively
  David Beckham
  Shah Rukh Khan
  Kiara Advani
  Diljit Dosanjh
  Shaji N Karun
  Popular Entertainment Categories
  Bollywood
  Rohit Sharma
  Virat Kohli
  Shubman Gill
  Hardik Pandya
  Taylor Swift
- Fashion
  Fashion
  Browse the latest images and videos focussed on fashion, from the runway to the red carpet, and beyond.
  Explore fashion visuals
  Trending Fashion Searches
  Isha Ambani Met Gala
  Natasha Poonawalla Met Gala
  Ananya Panday
  Payal Kapadia
  Met Gala
  Popular Fashion Categories
  Priyanka Chopra
  Virat Kohli
  Kim Kardashian
  Manish Malhotra
  Sonam Kapoor
  Tarun Tahiliani
- User generated
  User generated
  Discover the latest in high-quality, user-generated content, including exclusive images and videos you can only find here.
  Explore user-generated visuals
  Popular User-Generated Categories
  Animals
  Weather
  Environmental disasters
  Funny
  News
  Flood
- Archive
  Archives
  Browse the largest digital archive of news, sports, and entertainment photos, available exclusively from Getty Images.
  Explore our archives
  Trending Archival Searches
  Vinod Kambli
  Adolf Hitler
  Popular Archival Categories
  Sachin Tendulkar
  BR Ambedkar
  Mahatma Gandhi
  Indira Gandhi
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  APJ Abdul Kalam
Video
- Creative
- Editorial
Collections
Collections
- Expert Curations
  Expert Curations
  Browse trending images and videos that are ready for commercial use and backed by VisualGPS Search Insights.
  Find premium visuals
- Media & Sports Coverage
  Media & Sports Coverage
  Discover global news, sports, entertainment and archive visuals to create a story that leaves a lasting impact.
  Access iconic moments
- Partner Collections
  Partner Collections
  Explore collections of diverse images and videos, crafted through strategic brand partnerships and customer needs, that ensure genuine visual storytelling for every project.
  Find authentic images and videos
AI Generator
AI Generator
- Overview and pricing
  Overview and pricing
  Experience Generative AI by Getty Images: a solution that pairs Getty Images’ vast content and data with the latest AI technology.
  Overview and pricing What’s new FAQs
- Generate new images
  Generate new images
  Turn text into commercially safe, ready‑to‑licence images with our AI image generator.
  Learn more User guide FAQs
- Modify creative images
  Modify creative images
  Add, remove or replace elements in existing images from Getty Images’ creative library and make them your own.
  Learn more FAQs
- Custom Fine-Tuning
  Custom Fine-Tuning
  Generate consistent, on-brand visuals by creating a personalised AI model using your organisation’s assets.
  Learn more
Trends & Insights

Enterprise
Enterprise
- Premium Access
  Premium Access
  Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options await you.
  Discover Premium Access
- Custom Content
  Custom Content
  Tap into Getty Images’ global-scale, data-driven insights and network of over 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand.
  Explore Custom Content
- Media Manager
  Media Manager
  Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Organise, control, distribute, and measure all of your digital content.
  Check out Media Manager
- Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internet’s creators.
  Learn more
Pricing

Creative Images & Video
Images
Creative
Editorial
Video
Creative
Editorial

slavery in africa

14,897 Slavery In America Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

View slavery in america videos

Browse 14,897 slavery in america photos and images available, or search for slavery in africa to find more great photos and pictures.

mother and daughter sold at slave auction, southern usa, 1860s - slavery in america stock illustrations

Mother and daughter sold at Slave Auction, Southern USA, 1860s

old engraved illustration of cotton - its cultivation and preparation in america, cotton picking - popular encyclopedia published 1894 - slavery in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Old engraved illustration of Cotton - its Cultivation and Preparation in America, Cotton Picking - Popular Encyclopedia Published 1894

Enslaved people picking cotton on a plantation.

Enslaved People In Cotton Field

antique historical photographs from the us navy and army: cotton field - slavery in america stock illustrations

Antique historical photographs from the US Navy and Army: Cotton Field

An engraving of abolition officers driving Black enslaved people from plantations, circa 1800s.

Abolition Officers

antique photograph: farm in south usa - slavery in america stock illustrations

Antique photograph: Farm in south USA

workers picking cotton, louisiana, 19th century - slavery in america stock illustrations

Workers picking cotton, Louisiana, 19th Century

Formerly enslaved people sit at Foller's House in Cumberland Landing, Virginia circa 1850.

Family of Slaves

Group of enslaved workers on a cotton plantation watched by a supervisor on horseback, near Dallas, Texas, circa 1895.

Texas Cotton Plantation

old engraved illustration of a african american slave family representing five generations all born on the plantation of j. j. smith, beaufort, south carolina - slavery in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Old engraved illustration of a African American slave family representing five generations all born on the plantation of J. J. Smith, Beaufort, South Carolina

Negro labour loading sacks of cotton on cart to be taken for dressing and ginning, Southern states of USA. Wood engraving, 1860.

Negro labour loading sacks of cotton on cart, Southern states of USA.

Circa 1700, A Boston advertisement for a cargo of about 250 'fine healthy negroes', recently arrived from Africa on the slave ship 'Bante Island'. It...

Group of escaped slaves that gathered on the former plantation of Confederate General Thomas Drayton. After Federal troops occupied the plantation...

Group of women and children, presumably enslaved, sit and stand around the doorway of a rough wooden cabin, Southern United States, mid 19th Century....

Group of Women and Children

19th century north america - harvesting cotton in louisiana - slavery in america stock illustrations

19th Century North America - Harvesting cotton in Louisiana

slavery - slavery in america stock illustrations

Plantation slaves gathered outside their huts, Virginia, America. Photograph c1860.

Plantation slaves gathered outside their huts, Virginia, America. Photograph c1860.

Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer. Southern states of USA, 1860. Wood engraving.

Negro labourers weeding cotton under the eyes of a mounted white overseer, Southern states of USA.

Group of freed African American slaves along a wharf during the United States Civil War.

Freed African Americans Along a Wharf

old engraved illustration of northern and southern american industry - slavery in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Old engraved illustration of Northern and Southern American Industry

abraham lincoln signs emancipation proclamation - slavery in america stock illustrations

Abraham Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation

slave-coffle passing the capitol - slavery in america stock illustrations

Slave-Coffle passing the Capitol

Ex-slave and wife who live in a decaying plantation house. Greene County, Georgia. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Ex-Slave And Wife Who Live In A Decaying Plantation House

Group of young children sitting on the ground as women sit by a doorway and a man tends to a cattle-drawn cart in a scene of enslaved workers outside...

South Carolina Plantation

George Washington , the 1st President of the United States at Mount Vernon farm on the Potomac where he grew up, farmed and finally died. Washington...

Farmer Washington

Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619.

Dutch Slave Ship Arrives In Virginia

Summer Scene, 1866. Artist G. Gable.

old engraved illustration of enslaved people in chains - a slave-coffle passing by the us capitol in washington - slavery in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Old engraved illustration of Enslaved People In Chains - A Slave-Coffle passing by the US Capitol in Washington

Group of freed slaves who worked as laborers and servants with the 13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, 1862.

Group Of Freed Slaves

Los Angeles, CaliforniaSept. 22, 2022Los Angeles long-time resident, Walter Foster, age 80, holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to...

California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022.

antique photograph of 19th century slaves in a lousiana plantation - slavery in america stock illustrations

Antique photograph of 19th century slaves in a Lousiana plantation

Slave with an ox-cart containing the week's cotton pickings, New Orleans, USA.

A slave with an ox-cart containing the week's cotton pickings, New Orleans, USA. Artist: Anon

Group of men and boys, presumably enslaved, sit on and around a pile of barrels on a pier or dock, Jacksonville, Florida, mid 19th Century.

Sitting With Cargo

Slaves working in the sweet potato fields in the Hopkinson plantation . Ca. 1862.

Slave auction in Virginia, USA, in the mid 19th-century. After an illustration by an unidentified artist in the Illustrated London News, February 16,...

A slave auction in Virginia, USA, in the mid 19th-century. After an illustration by an unidentified artist in the Illustrated London News, February 16, 1861.

Enslaved African-American people plant sweet potatoes on a plantation, 1862. Note: Image has been digitally colorized using a modern process. Colors...

Enslaved People Planting Sweet Potatoes

Portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North, sitting outside a house, possible in Freedman's...

Civil War Contrabands

Group of African Americans aboard the USS Vermont. The United States Navy employed thousands of freed slaves during the Civil War.

African American Sailors

Slaves of Thomas F Drayton of Magnolia Plantation, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1862. During the American Civil War, Drayton, a Southern plantation...

Slaves of Thomas F Drayton of Magnolia Plantation, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1862. During the American Civil War, (1861-1865) Drayton, a Southern plantation owner, served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army .

1700s 1800s ILLUSTRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICA SLAVE WORKERS OPERATING COTTON GIN SOUTHERN USA

1700s 1800s ILLUSTRATION.

Photograph of a slave auction being held in a public space, the crowd consists of men most of whom are wearing suits and hats, an auctioneer...

cotton plantation usa engraving 1873 - slavery in america stock illustrations

Cotton plantation USA engraving 1873

An enslaved Black family, with a woman holding a small child, standing by the doorway of their accommodation at the plantation on Fort George Island,...

Fort George Island Plantation

Enslaved workers picking cotton.

When James Hopkinson, owner of a plantation on Edisto Island, left South Carolina in 1862, he left behind over fifty slaves United States,...

When James Hopkinson, owner of a plantation on Edisto Island, left South Carolina in 1862, he left behind over fifty slaves

Group of women and a man, presumably enslaved, sit on the steps of the Florida Club, St. Augustine, Florida, mid 19th Century. A white woman,...

On The Steps Of The Florida Club

1800s 1860s Emancipated Former Enslaved Men Serving As Teamsters In The Union Army Standing In A Ragtag Line During The American Civl War.

1800s 1860s Emancipated Former Enslaved Men Serving The Union

African Americans stand outside a contraband school, or Freedman's Village, in Arlington, Virginia, ca. 1860s.

Freed Slaves in Arlington, Virginia

Freed African-Americans in a southern town after the US Civil War, circa 1870.

Freed Slaves In The South

Portrait of African American residents at an early area homestead in Nicodemus in Graham County, Kansas, late nineteenth century. Nicodemus, Kansas...

Portrait Of Early African American Settlers In Nicodemus, Kansas

antique illustration of cotton field with workers - slavery in america stock illustrations

Antique illustration of cotton field with workers

American president George Washington watches over a group of Black enslaved people working in a field at Mount Vernon.

Enslaved By Washington

intense young man - slavery in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Intense Young Man

Family of former slaves outside their ramshackle house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, ca. 1862-1865.

Slaves preparing tobacco, Virginia, USA. C1790 . Plate 50 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, Volume II, by Jules Ferrario. Artist Angelo Biasioli.

Slaves Preparing Tobacco Virginia USA circa 1790 (circa 1820-1839)

1830s 1831 ABRAHAM LINCOLN OBSERVING NEW ORLEANS SLAVE MARKET AUCTION SALE FROM HAND COLORED ANTIQUE GLASS LANTERN SLIDE

1830s 1831 ABRAHAM LINCOLN...

Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter", a former enslaved man, shows his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2nd April...

Rear View of Former Enslaved Man Revealing Scars at Medical Inspection

Free African-American Family, Post Civil War, c 1898, Vintage Photograph.

Free African-American Family, Post Civil War, c 1898, Vintage Photograph

african americans harvisting crop in a cotton field, 19th century - slavery in america stock illustrations

African americans harvisting crop in a cotton field, 19th Century

morning mustering of the "contrabands" at fortress monroe, on their way to their day's work civil war engraving - slavery in america stock illustrations

Morning Mustering of the "Contrabands" at Fortress Monroe, on Their Way to Their Day's Work Civil War Engraving

of 100