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Abolition, liberation and human rights

Movements for freedom, equality and justice.

Owner-supplied illustration of violence aboard a slave ship; not verified as a contemporary depiction of the Zong.Massacre

Zong massacre

The killing of enslaved Africans followed by a court dispute over their insurance value.

Mau Mau leaders, 1954.Colonial detention system

Mau Mau detention system

Detention and torture during Britain's suppression of the Kenyan independence struggle.

Eleanor Roosevelt holding an English-language declaration poster at Lake Success, New York, in November 1949.Freedom and rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Setting out a shared international statement of human rights.

Nelson Mandela in Washington, DC, in October 1994; a portrait from the election year, not a polling-day photograph.Constitutional milestone

South Africa's first democratic election

Opening national voting to citizens of all races after apartheid.

Detail of the Kate Sheppard National Memorial in Christchurch; a later commemoration of the suffrage campaign.Constitutional milestone

Women's suffrage in New Zealand

Enfranchising women in national parliamentary elections.

The decorated preamble to the Constitution of India.Constitutional milestone

The making of India's Constitution

Establishing the constitutional framework of an independent republic.

A later illustration of the 1791 uprising and fires in Saint-Domingue; not a contemporary photograph.Freedom and rights

The Haitian Revolution

Overthrowing plantation slavery and founding an independent Black republic.

Gandhi and fellow marchers during the Salt March in March 1930.Freedom and rights

The Salt March

Turning a tax on an everyday necessity into a mass challenge to colonial rule.

Women demonstrating for peace in Liberia.Peace and resistance

Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace

Bringing Christian and Muslim women together to press for an end to war.

Anton Hickel's portrait of William Wilberforce, one parliamentary participant in the wider abolition campaign.Abolition milestone

British abolition of the slave trade

Parliament outlawing British participation in the slave trade after sustained resistance and campaigning.

A reproduction of Brazil's Lei Áurea of 1888.Abolition milestone

Abolition of slavery in Brazil

The Lei Áurea ending legal slavery after a long struggle by enslaved people and abolitionists.

Independence Arch in Accra, a later monument to Ghanaian independence.Independence milestone

Ghanaian independence

The Gold Coast becoming independent Ghana after mass political mobilisation against colonial rule.

National Liberation Army soldiers during Algeria's war of independence.Decolonisation

Algerian independence

A prolonged struggle ending French colonial rule in Algeria.

Sukarno, with Mohammad Hatta, proclaiming Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945.Independence struggle

Indonesian independence revolution

Military resistance and diplomacy defeating Dutch attempts to restore colonial rule.

Rosa Parks on an integrated Montgomery bus in December 1956, after the boycott; not a photograph of her arrest.Civil rights campaign

Montgomery bus boycott

A sustained boycott and legal challenge ending compulsory segregation on Montgomery buses.