Images from the book Outcasts of the Gods?: the Struggle Over Slavery in Māori New Zealand, by Hazel Petrie (Auckland University Press). Images provided by Alexander Turnbull Library
Portrait of an aged slave woman at Puketouto, by George French Angas, 1847. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Portrait of three young Māori women, c.1827-28, by Augustus Earle.Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
A man and a woman under tapu being fed by others, by Louis Auguste de Sainson, 1839. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Tohunga being fed by a child, by Gottfried Lindauer, c.1902. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
A slave woman preparing potatoes, by George French Angas, 1847. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Reko's slave girl, Tuturau, by John Turnbull Thomson, 1856. Hocken Library, Dunedin
Spoils to the Victor, by Louis John Steele, 1908. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Woman overseeing a group of female workers, likely war captives, by Louis Auguste de Sainson, 1839. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
'Old Mihaka', the slave left behind by Te Rauparaha when eretreating from Kawhia., V.S> Jacskon, letter to Miss Wilson, c1919. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Slavea pounding fern root at Kororareka, 1827-28, by Augustus Earle.Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
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