Floor plan and sections through the slave ship Brooks or Brookes of Liverpool. Carried 351 men, 127 women, 90 boys and 41 girls, total of 609 slaves and 45 sailors. Lower deck with chained males a, boys b and girls c. The Slave Ship. After the engraving published by the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Plymouth, 1788. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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