• Description of a slave ship.

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Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • South wall 10, Lapidus 4.21e
  • Oversize 2016-0001E
Extent:
  • 1 sheet : ill. ; 64 cm.
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • 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) ESTC T137749: Illustrated with woodcuts.(ESTC T137749)
  • Princeton copy 2 (Ex 2016-0001E) ESTC T511926: Illustrated with copper plate engraving, including title 'Plan and sections of a slave ship.' (ESTC N11615)
Publisher:
  • London : Printed by James Phillips, 1789.
Subject:
  • Brooks (Slave ship)
  • Antislavery movements—Great Britain
  • Slave trade—Africa
  • Broadsides—Specimens
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
  • ESTC T511926
Created:
  • 1789-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1789
Location:
  • Special Collections South wall 10, Lapidus 4.21e
  • Special Collections Oversize 2016-0001E
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/qj72p788s
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Genre:
  • Woodcuts England London 18th century.
  • Broadsides