Brookes (ship)

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Brookes slave ship plan
Brookes slave ship plan

The Brookes print was an image widely used by campaigners for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. First designed in Plymouth, UK, in 1788 by the Plymouth Chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade[1] and depicting the conditions on board the slave ship Brooke. The print has become an iconic image of the inhumanity of the slave trade.

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  1. ^ The Brookes - visualising the transatlantic slave trade (2007). Retrieved on 2008-03-06.