Details

Subject(s)

• Brooks (Slave ship) [Browse]
• Antislavery movements—Great Britain [Browse]
• Slave trade—Africa [Browse]
• Broadsides—Specimens [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Broadsides [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Woodcuts—England—London—18th century [Browse]

Notes

• Two variants are known, one illustrated by wood cuts and the other illustrated with a copper plate engraving. The broadside was first published between 21 and 28 April 1789. According to minutes of the London Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the printing orders are recorded on 28 July 1789 as follows: '1,700 Description of a Slave Ship with copper plate; 7,000 ditto with wood cuts.' Cf. Cheryl Finley, Committed to memory : the slave ship icon in the black Atlantic imagination (Ph. D. dissert., Yale Univ.) 2002, p. 94, footnote 119.
• Princeton copy 1 (Ex 2006-0018E) Illustrated with woodcuts.(ESTC T137749)
• Princeton copy 2 (Ex 2016-0001E) Illustrated with copper plate engraving, including title 'Plan and sections of a slave ship.' (ESTC N11615)

Source acquisition

• Princeton copy 1 Purchase; Acquired with matching funds given by Sidney Lapidus, Class of 1959, 2006.
• Princeton copy 2 Acquired from John O'Mara (via. B. Quaritch) 2016.

References

• ESTC T137749
• ESTC N11615

LCCN

84224366

OCLC

30707459

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