(SLAVE SHIP) The Spanish Schooner Josefa Maracayera of 90 To

Sale 2068 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 5,980

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(SLAVE SHIP.) The Spanish Schooner, Josefa Maracayera, of 90 Tons, 21 Seamen . . . . with 216 male Slaves on board. Engraved Broadside Diagram with captions. 16x17 inches; early archival paper repairs to a closed tear across the center of the page and a small nick in the left half of the leaf; creases where folded. London: Printed under Direction of a Committee of a Society of Friends appointed to aid in promoting the total Abolition of the Slave-trade, by Harvey and Darton, 1822

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A highly unusual version of a slave-ship diagram as an anti-slavery broadside. There is considerably more detail to the drawing of the slaves within the hull of this ship than is usually seen in the broadside depictions of the ships Brooke or Vigilante. As the long caption beneath this explains; while Spain and Portugal had been signatories to the 1807 ban on taking slaves from Africa, the practice not only persisted, but as many as 17,000 slaves passed through Rio de Janeiro in a six month period in 1822.