Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

100 x 76 mm. Showing a group of young children posed for the photographer: 'Next day we stopped at a place called Rumaisha, where the Sudan United Mission have a station. Last year the Government handed over to them all the little slave-children who had, from time to time, been rescued. Although we do everything possible to stamp out the slave trade, there is still a good deal of it going on in a small way ... The kids seem to be wonderfully well cared for, and are as fat as butter. They are of all ages up to 16, and the bigger ones are made to work, either in the fields, or at various trades. There is an extraordinary mixture of them, and many come from the wildest and most remote parts of the country.' (Bell 1910, October 3).

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