Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Description of a slave ship.
Call Number
South wall 10, Lapidus 4.21e
Oversize 2016-0001E
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qj72p788s
Publisher
London : Printed by James Phillips, 1789.
Language
English
Date Created
1789
Extent
1 sheet : ill. ; 64 cm.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Purchase; Acquired with matching funds given by Sidney Lapidus, Class of 1959, 2006.
Princeton copy 2 Acquired from John O'Mara (via. B. Quaritch) 2016.
References
ESTC T137749
ESTC N11615
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Two variants are known, one illustrated by wood cuts and the other illustrated with a copper plate engraving. The broadside was first published between 21 and 28 April 1789. According to minutes of the London Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the printing orders are recorded on 28 July 1789 as follows: '1,700 Description of a Slave Ship with copper plate; 7,000 ditto with wood cuts.' Cf. Cheryl Finley, Committed to memory : the slave ship icon in the black Atlantic imagination (Ph. D. dissert., Yale Univ.) 2002, p. 94, footnote 119.
Princeton copy 1 (Ex 2006-0018E) Illustrated with woodcuts.(ESTC T137749)
Princeton copy 2 (Ex 2016-0001E) Illustrated with copper plate engraving, including title 'Plan and sections of a slave ship.' (ESTC N11615)

Discovery Information

Subject
Brooks (Slave ship)
Antislavery movements—Great Britain
Slave trade—Africa
Broadsides—Specimens
Woodcuts—England—London—18th century
Broadsides

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c4bf87bf-fcbd-4743-aec4-52362cf9c557/manifest