Committed to memory : the art of the slave ship icon

Committed to memory : the art of the slave ship icon /

"One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was-- shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as...

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Author / Contributor: Finley, Cheryl (Author)
Imprint: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Brookes (Ship) > In art.
Brookes (Ship) > Pictorial works.
Brookes (Ship)
Abolitionists > Methodology.
Slavery in art.
Enslaved persons > In art.
Black people in art.
Eighteenth century > In art.
Art and history.
Art, Modern > Themes, motives.

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