“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.
Stowage on the British
Slave Ships
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.