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Brooks (or Brook, Brookes) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788. Between 1782 and 1804, she made 11 voyages from Liverpool in the triangular slave trade in enslaved people (for the Brooks, England, to Africa, to the Caribbean, and back to England).
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Born in Liverpool on 21 January 1780, he was the eldest son of John Yates, minister of the Paradise Street Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool.His brothers were John Ashton Yates (1781–1863), M.P. for Carlow and author of pamphlets on trade and slavery; Richard Vaughan Yates (1785–1856), founder of Prince's Park, Liverpool; James Yates; and Pemberton Heywood Yates (1791–1822).
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Brookes (ship).From the British Library: "This diagram of the 'Brookes' slave ship, which transported enslaved Africans to the Caribbean, is probably the most widely copied and powerful image used by those who campaigned to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The Atlantic slave trade and British abolition, 1760–1810 (1975) Chakravarty, Urvashi (2022). Fictions of Consent. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9826-0. Devine, Tom M. Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past. (Edinburgh U, 2015). Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British slavery in the era of abolition (U of North Carolina Press ...
Others treated their multiracial children as property; Alexander Scott Withers, for instance, sold two of his children to slave traders, where they were sold again. Alex Haley 's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention.
The first periodical anti-slavery publication for young readers in the United States was The Slave's Friend, [12] with 36 issues published between 1836 and 1838 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. The publication regularly featured woodblock prints [ 13 ] that included images of violence perpetrated against slaves by white slave owners, young ...