Brookes Slave Ship Middle Passage Stowage Diagram 1788
by Doc Braham
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Brookes Slave Ship Middle Passage Stowage Diagram 1788
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Doc Braham
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An engraving first published in Plymouth in 1788 by the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade depicted the conditions on board the Brookes and has become an iconic image of the inhumanity of the slave trade.
The image portrayed slaves arranged on the ship's lower deck and poop deck, in accordance with the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788.
The Brookes was reportedly allowed to stow 454 African slaves, by allowing a space of 6 feet (1.8 m) by 1 foot 4 inches (0.41 m) to each man; 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) by 1 foot 4 inches (0.41 m) to each woman, and 5 feet (1.5 m) by 1 foot 2 inches (0.36 m) to each child. However, the poster's text alleges that a slave trader confessed that before the Act, the Brookes had carried as many as 609 slaves at one time.
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May 30th, 2019
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Your #1-------Thanks so much to the buyer from Erie, PA.....................................
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