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A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.

A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.

A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.

A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.

A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.

Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.

The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.

Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.

The heart of the race : Black women's lives in Britain / Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe ; foreword by Lola Okolosie.

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Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.

The heart of the race : Black women's lives in Britain / Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe ; foreword by Lola Okolosie.

A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.

A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.