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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [CLARKSON, THOMAS.] Diagram of the slave-ship Brookes. Single sheet, 17 x 8-1/2 inches, engraved on both sides; paper evenly toned. Np, circa 1810-1820
This image is the quintessential visual representation of the evils of the African slave trade. As such, it was also the most copied. It first appeared in Bristol, England in 1789 with the caption "Plan of an African Ship's Lower Deck." There followed several more British engravings in 1789, and an American re-engraved version in the 1789 American Museum. It was used by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson in 1791 when the former presented it as part of his "Evidence" before Parliament. The present version seems to conform with the engraving that appeared in Thomas Clarkson's "History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade," (1808). However, that version appears on one side of a large folding plate, whereas this one is printed on both sides.
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