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Plans of Slave Decks, Slave Ship Brookes

Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade

Plans of Slave Decks, Slave Ship Brookes
Source: Library of Congress
A detailed drawing of the slave ship Brookes, showing how 482 people were to be packed onto the decks. The detailed plans and cross sectional drawing of the slave ship Brookes was distributed by the Abolitionist Society in England as part of their campaign against the slave trade, and dates from 1789.

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