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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).
A plan of the British slave ship Brookes, showing how 454 slaves were accommodated on board after the Slave Trade Act 1788. This same ship had reportedly carried as many as 609 slaves and was 267 tons burden, making 2.3 slaves per ton. [1] Published by the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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.
Description of the Brookes, a British slave ship, 1787. The duration of the transatlantic voyage varied widely, [2] from one to six months depending on weather conditions. The journey became more efficient over the centuries: while an average transatlantic journey of the early 16th century lasted several months, by the 19th century the crossing ...
An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 pretended to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until 1937 that the trade of slaves was made illegal throughout the British Empire, with Nigeria and Bahrain being the last British territories to abolish slavery.
SANDSTONE, Minn. — Row by row, stitch by stitch, the toys took shape. Green dragons and pink pigs and a bunny with multicolored stripes on its ears where the skein of yarn started to run low. It ...
A hurrier and two thrusters heaving a corf full of coal as depicted in the 1853 book The White Slaves of England by J Cobden. The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 ( 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99), commonly known as the Mines Act 1842 , was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
Police and family are still looking for answers in the disappearance of Bradley Brooks, who went missing on Aug. 18, 2019, after telling his daughter and girlfriend, Ashley Nelson, he was going ...