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Description of a Slave Ship

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Published by
James Phillips
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Cheryl Finley
Source: http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2008/05/ship_brooks.html
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Published in London in 1789, the broadside Description of a Slave Ship is an icon of the antislavery moment in England and the United States. Between March and July of that year, more than 10,000 copies of the plan of the slave ship Brooks, in one form or another, were issued. The plan makes visually striking what until then had been grasped only verbally or by consulting the statistical data gathered by Commons regarding the ships involved in the trade.
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