(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) WARDSTROM CARL BERNHARD Plan and Sec

Sale 2271 - Lot 2

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) WARDSTROM, CARL BERNHARD. Plan and Section of a Slave Ship (from Wardstrom's "Essay on Colonization, particularly Applied to the Western Coast of Africa." London, 1794), 20-3/4 x 26-3/4 inches; faint creases where once folded, with a tiny hole at the conjunction of the early folds; professionally conserved with archival paper on the reverse. London, 1794

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A rare variant of the 1789 representation of the slave ship Brookes (sometimes spelled Brook's). The present engraving, taken from the Brookes model, depicts the familiar cutaway of the hold of a slave ship with the people literally stacked like cord-wood. However, it also bears an extra vignette engraving (4-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches) titled "Representation of an Insurrection on board a Slave Ship." The entire piece is divided vertically into two halves, with a sizable piece of text, "Description of a Slave Ship" to the right of the engraving. Wardstrom provides rare details on the dimensions of the decks holding the men, women and children; the height and width and depth. He also goes into some detail on the loss of life during the terrible "Middle Passage," based on the narrative of Alexander Falconbridge, ("An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa," London, 1788). Falconbridge was surgeon on a Liverpool slave ship.