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Plans of Slave Decks, Slave Ship Brookes

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Plans of Slave Decks, Slave Ship BrookesSource: 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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