Abolitionism in America

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“Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes” From: Regulated Slave Trade: From the Evidence of Robert Stokes, Esq., given before the Select Committee of the House of Lords. London: J. Ridgway, 1851.
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Stowage on the British Slave Ships
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This diagram and description of the Liverpool-based slave ship, Brookes, shows the number and placement of Africans in the ship’s hold, contrary to the legal regulations of the slave trade. The layout, based on Thomas Clarkson’s information, was given as evidence before Parliament as argument against the slave trade.

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection.

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