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Drawing of the slave ship 'Brookes'.
Clarkson, Thomas
1808
A schematic drawing of the slave ship Brooks. This fold-out engraving was published in the by Thomas Clarkson. A leading opponent of the slave trade, he wrote that this "famous print of the plan and section of a slave ship … was designed to give the spectator an idea of the sufferings of the Africans in the Middle Passage."
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Drawing of the slave ship 'Brookes'.
Clarkson, Thomas
1808
A schematic drawing of the slave ship Brooks. This fold-out engraving was published in the by Thomas Clarkson. A leading opponent of the slave trade, he wrote that this "famous print of the plan and section of a slave ship … was designed to give the spectator an idea of the sufferings of the Africans in the Middle Passage."
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/mr49e4