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Plan of an African Ships Lower Deck with Negroes in the Proportion of Only One to a Ton. / William Elford.
1789
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- Publisher
- [Plymouth], [1789].
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- Language
- English
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- Title
- Plan of an African Ships Lower Deck with Negroes in the Proportion of Only One to a Ton. / William Elford.
- Call Number
- 2022-0005Q
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc8049gj33h
- Publisher
- [Plymouth], [1789].
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1789
- Extent
- 1 broadside.
- Provenance
- Several pieces laid-in including book plate of Mrs. Thomson, Crescent. Published by London, UK: Circulating Library, [ca. 1790].
- References
- ESTC N483604
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Broadside with engraved ship plan and London Abolition Committee seal engraved by Thomas Deeble, Bristol, and accompanying letterpress text by William Elford.
- Letterpress text begins: The above plate represents the lower deck of an African ship of 297 tons burthen, with the slaves stowed on it, in the proportion of not quite one to a ton. ..
- Issued by the Plymouth Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in England.
- Signed at end: By the Plymouth Committee, W. Elford, chairman.
- The broadside is divided in three pieces and pasted into an album. The album is about 300 pages and filled with contemporary newspaper clippings, prints, slipsong ballads, and occasional drawing or manuscript notes, ranging in date from the 1740s to the early 1800s.
- Also issued as a four page pamphlet with accompanying plate, printed by Trewman and Haydon, Plymouth, cf. ESTC T148326.
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- 333
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- Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
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